With a golf legacy dating to 1934, the Masters Tournament now ranks as the biggest draw in private aviation. More than 2,050 business aircraft arrived in the Augusta region for last year’s edition, up 34 percent from pre-Covid 2019. This year’s numbers, up slightly from 2025, represented fifteen times more arrivals than the Augusta airport sees in a typical week. Other marquee sporting competitions are also attracting growing numbers of charter flights and owner-operated jets each year, despite hefty event fees that pack in higher costs of jet fuel, hangar rates, and other costs associated with managing a much larger fleet.
The Super Bowl, Formula 1, the Kentucky Derby, and the N.C.A.A. Final Four turn local airports into biz-jet jigsaw puzzles, and even regional…
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