Efficiency & Utilization Reports
A 0–100 score for every aircraft and mission.
Aircraft are routinely mismatched to missions — eight passengers on a Global, two on a Challenger, seven coast-to-coast in a light jet. The Aircraft Efficiency Index turns that quiet waste into a single, defensible number.
Sample · Challenger 350 · 6 pax · TEB→PBI
The composite index
Four scores, one number, zero ambiguity.
The Index combines fuel, fit, cost, and utilization into a single 0–100 composite — benchmarked against the market, defensible in a boardroom, and specific enough to act on.
Delivered as a per-tail and fleet-level report, with the underlying drivers and the dollar value of each inefficiency made explicit.
How scoring works
Each category is a ratio of what happened to what was optimal.
Fuel Efficiency Score
Actual fuel burn versus the optimal burn for the mission. Surfaces the cost of flying more airplane than the trip requires.
Aircraft Fit Score
The aircraft used versus the optimal aircraft for cabin, range, and passenger count — the mismatch the industry never quantifies.
Cost Efficiency Score
All-in mission cost versus the lowest-cost aircraft that still meets the mission. Real dollars, not list rates.
Utilization Score
Tail-level activity versus a fleet benchmark. Identifies underused aircraft, idle capital, and remarketing opportunities.
The mismatch, made concrete
What an inefficient mission actually looks like.
None of these are unusual — they happen every day, unmeasured. The Index puts a number, and a dollar figure, on each one.
8 passengers · Global 6500
An ultra-long-range jet on a 900-nm hop — paying for range and cabin the mission never uses.
2 passengers · Challenger 650
A heavy jet for two — fuel and cabin scaled for a crowd that isn't aboard.
7 passengers · Citation XLS
Seven flown coast-to-coast in a midsize — a fuel stop and a cabin stretched past its comfortable range.
What the report delivers
A grade you can act on — and defend.
Per-tail scorecard
A 0–100 Efficiency Index for every aircraft, split into fuel, fit, cost, and utilization.
Dollar value of waste
Each inefficiency translated into real annual dollars — not a vague letter grade.
Right-sizing recommendations
The aircraft that should have flown each mission, and the savings if it had.
Fleet benchmark
Every tail ranked against fleet and market benchmarks to expose idle capital.
Remarketing flags
Underused aircraft surfaced as candidates for sale, sublease, or charter.
Board-ready summary
A defensible one-page read for owners, principals, and finance.
The analysis in practice
The same discipline — one aircraft, or a fleet.
Client work is held in confidence. Names and tail numbers are never published.
Owner · Falcon 900LX · Utilization analysis
Identified impact
in avoidable annual cost — directional
Confidential engagement
The situation
An owner was flying a Falcon 900LX roughly 195 hours a year across 153 missions — moderate hours, but predominantly short-to-medium legs, plus recurring long-haul trips to Spain.
The analysis
TRH pulled two years of JetNet flight data and ran a mission-fit and cycle-intensity assessment. About half the missions fell outside the aircraft's economic envelope; cycle intensity ran at 0.40 per hour against a healthy 0.20–0.30 — and the aircraft's range forced a fuel stop on every Spain trip.
The recommendation
Sell into the current market and transition to a Gulfstream G550 — eliminating the fuel stops, cutting cycle accumulation, and protecting residual value. The misalignment was carrying an estimated $1.5–2.5M a year.
And across a fleet
Four ultra-long-range jets, flown like air taxis.
An enterprise flight department ran four Global 6500s and 7500s — jets built for 4,000-nautical-mile transatlantic missions. Two years of data showed nearly half to two-thirds of every aircraft’s flights were short-haul, with legs as short as 24 miles. Every tail scored in the bottom third.
Figures are directional, drawn from clients’ actual flight history and current market conditions. Names and tail numbers are never published.
What we ingest
Standard flight data in. A defensible score out.
Sourced from operator logs and integrations with industry data — JetNet, WingX, ARGUS, and FAA activity — where available.
Who it’s for
Anyone accountable for an aircraft’s economics.
- 01Operators & fleet managers
- 02Aircraft owners
- 03Family offices
- 04Fractional providers
- 05Charter brokers
Request an efficiency audit.
Send a fleet or a single tail. We'll return an Efficiency Index report with the dollar value of every inefficiency made explicit.