FlyExclusive and Privé Jets Win Private Jet Charter Categories at 2026 World Travel Awards
Why It MattersCharter awards decided by industry-peer votes and carrying automatic next-year qualification let repeat entrants build a visible track record, making such recognition a recurring marketing asset in a trust-driven segment.
What happened
The World Travel Awards named FlyExclusive and Privé Jets as leading private jet charter companies. FlyExclusive won the North American category, while Privé Jets took the Caribbean and South American categories. Air Charter Service was also nominated in the South American category.
World Travel Awards is an event services tourism company, and industry executives and professionals vote to choose the winners. Most entrants have won, or been nominated for, previous awards, and Privé Jets in particular has won multiple times. Under the awards' rules, the winner and two runners-up from each year automatically qualify for the following year's awards.
In a press release, FlyExclusive CEO Jim Segrave said the award belongs to the company's people, who work to earn clients' trust on every flight. He said every pilot, technician and service professional knows that clients stepping onto a jet are trusting the team with what matters most to them, whether time with family or a meeting that could shape their business, and that the recognition pushes the company to raise the bar even higher.
Industry impact & what to watch
Awards of this kind work differently from performance rankings. Because the electorate is industry executives and professionals, and because the winner and two runners-up carry over automatically to the next year, the same names tend to recur. Privé Jets winning multiple times fits that mechanism: an early win or runner-up place translates into a standing seat in the following round.
For a charter segment that sells on trust and service rather than on a standardised product, a third-party title is cheap, portable marketing. Segrave's framing in the press release, built around clients entrusting the team with family time or a business meeting, shows how operators convert an award into a statement about reliability, which buyers cannot easily measure from outside.
The practical read for anyone comparing providers is that the title signals peer recognition and consistent entry, not audited safety or service data. The next signal worth tracking is who qualifies automatically for the following year's awards as winner or runner-up, since that list will show whether these results repeat.
