Teterboro is the busiest private jet airport in the world — 28,350 business jet movements observed over twelve months, nearly twice the next airport on the list.
We segmented 252,417 business jet flights from open ADS-B position data across 362 days, then counted arrivals and departures at every airport. These are observed movements, not scheduled traffic or fleet estimates.
The 12 busiest private jet airports
| # | Airport | City | Country | Movements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teterboro Airport (TEB) | Teterboro | United States | 28,350 |
| 2 | Van Nuys Airport (VNY) | Van Nuys | United States | 14,536 |
| 3 | Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) | Las Vegas | United States | 12,908 |
| 4 | Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) | Dulles | United States | 12,868 |
| 5 | President Donald J. Trump International Airport (PBI) | West Palm Beach | United States | 11,005 |
| 6 | Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) | San Jose | United States | 9,499 |
| 7 | Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) | Austin | United States | 8,563 |
| 8 | Centennial Airport (APA) | Denver | United States | 7,453 |
| 9 | Dallas Love Field (DAL) | Dallas | United States | 6,835 |
| 10 | Paris-Le Bourget International Airport (LBG) | Paris | France | 6,618 |
| 11 | San Francisco International Airport (SFO) | San Francisco | United States | 5,924 |
| 12 | Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK) | Oakland | United States | 5,903 |
What the ranking shows
Teterboro is in a class of its own. At 28,350 movements it carries almost double Van Nuys, the second-placed airport. New York’s dedicated business airport is the single most important node in private aviation worldwide.
Almost none of these are the big airline hubs. Teterboro, Van Nuys, Centennial, Love Field, Henderson Executive and Le Bourget are business aviation airports first. Where a major hub does appear — Dulles, Harry Reid, San Jose — it is serving a specific corridor rather than acting as a general gateway. This is why booking on the main airport is usually the wrong instinct: see private jet charter from New York for how the airport choice actually splits.
Two airports serve Las Vegas in the top twelve — Harry Reid and Henderson Executive — which says something about the traffic that city generates.
Only two non-US airports make it: Paris Le Bourget and Nice Côte d’Azur, both in France. Le Bourget is Europe’s business aviation capital; Nice is the Riviera gateway and the busiest leisure-driven business jet airport on the continent.
Explore these airports
Charter guides for the cities these airports serve: New York · Las Vegas · Paris · Dallas · Austin · San Francisco · Denver · Nice
By country: United States · France · United Kingdom · Switzerland · United Arab Emirates
Related analysis: the busiest private jet routes · the most popular private jet.
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How we measured this
Movements are arrivals plus departures, segmented from individual aircraft traces across 362 days of open ADS-B data. We observed traffic at 1,935 airports in total. Any leg spanning a coverage gap is excluded rather than estimated — 54% of raw legs are discarded on that basis. Scheduled commuter aircraft are excluded so the ranking reflects business jet operations. We publish no registrations, tail numbers or owner information; every figure is aggregate.
One limit worth stating: ADS-B coverage is thin over oceans, Africa and parts of Asia, and aircraft enrolled in blocking programmes are under-represented — so airports outside North America and Europe are systematically undercounted here.