Watch the sky - more jets coming
NetJets Aviation ordered an additional 48 Hawker business jets from Raytheon Aircraft Co. -- doubling the order the fractional ownership company placed during the 2006 National Business Aviation...
View ArticleThe best part of a car show? A luxury private jet!
Monday's Family Value Day drew even more people than the auction's first such discount event last year, when more than 25,000 people filed through the gates to see the world's greatest collection of...
View ArticleAccess to private aviation fleet is a part of a new Exclusive Resorts Service...
Through an extension of the existing partnership Exclusive Resorts enjoys with Marquis Jet, club members receive exclusive opportunities to take advantage of the Marquis Jet Card program, which...
View ArticleNew York-Los Angeles per-seat pricing launched
Avion Private Jet Club, the first to launch New York-Los Angeles per-seat pricing on scheduled charter executive jets, offers special flights to luxuriously whisk the cognoscenti to Los Angeles for...
View ArticleUS Senate legislation bars its members from using official or campaign funds...
Senators would be required to pay far more expensive charter rates for private air travel as per new legislation.The was nine members of Congress which spent more than $50,000 in campaign funds in 2006...
View ArticleMark Fields of Ford Motors switch his private jet flights for a common air...
Today, Mr. Fields announced to the workers at Ford that he would forgo the right to take a private jet to get home on weekends, guaranteed to him as a part of his compensation package, and make the...
View ArticleThree major obstacles for fractional operators
BusinessWeek published and article about three major obstacles for fractional operators such as NetJets and Flexjet.Here their are:DiscountsDiscounting the fares in a futile attempt to get enough...
View ArticleOffset carbon dioxide emissions for less than 1% of flying time costs
Helium Report provides a nice breakdown of costs to offset carbon dioxide emissions while flying various private jets.Gulfstream 400, a heavy class jet, is one of the costly types due to its emission...
View ArticleHawker Siddley executive private jet safely landed after bird collision
Scotsman put up a story about a private jet with eight people on board which was forced to make an emergency landing after a bird flew into one of its engines.A total of five ambulances and a special...
View ArticleWatching carbon footprint of private jet owners
What's common for Tom Cruise and Roman Abramovich? Huge carbon impact. Patrick Collinson of Guardian Unlimited compiled a list of 10 well-known names united by their respective carbon emission. If...
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Russian prezident's jet interior
Not exactly a private jet, but I couldn't miss the opportunity to blog this.Allegedly this is an interior of a aircraft numero uno – the plane of Vladimir Putin, president of Russian...
View ArticleFuel tax could be replaced with weight and distance based charges, resulting...
FAA is struggling to find a solution to decreasing ticket taxes income and going to redistribute it's burden charging private jet owners more.The proposal the FAA finally issues will likely be a...
View ArticleThink environment friendly? Fly Executive Charter Services!
Executive Charter Services (ECS), an exclusive private jet charter brokerage company, today announced that it will offer clients the option to balance out the carbon dioxide emissions produced by their...
View ArticleNetJets Europe is lagging behind Executive Charter Services.
Mark Booth, chairman and chief executive of NetJets Europe, told Reuters that many of his 1,300 to 1,400 clients were concerned about the need to tackle global warming, but were unlikely to give up...
View ArticleYour jet collects dust in hangar? Donate some time to charity!
There's always someone in desperate need of getting from point A to point B. For some of them it's vital - organs recipients, who have waited on the list for too long and now have to get to a hospital...
View ArticlePrivate jet traffic to India soars as business booms
Corporate honchos flying into India in their private jets are set to almost triple in the next couple of years as the country emerges as a top destination for fast growing business, says the world's...
View ArticlePrivate jet built for two for mile-high wannabes
Fancy getting intimate at high altitude, but don't like the idea of doing it in a toilet cubicle or fumbling under a blanket in between trolley services? A new company is to offer passengers the chance...
View Article10 hours of private jet travel for free
Marquis Jet Card for you and six guests for ten hours of private jet travel with all the luxuries included is the Grand Prise of Microsoft Office Live "I'm Going Places" Sweepstakes.All hours will be...
View ArticleOneSky Jets Acquires Charter Jet Broker, LLC
OneSky Jets has acquired Fort Lauderdale-based Charter Jet Broker, LLC, and David Lovely, its founder, will become Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, announced Greg Johnson, CEO and...
View ArticleLufthansa Private Jet flights up 13 per cent
Lufthansa Private Jet, the exclusive service for individual and flexible air travel, has written another chapter in its success story, posting a 13 per cent increase in the number of flights operated...
View ArticlePrivate Jet Flight Time as a Valentine Gift
Especially for Valentine’s Day, Blue Star Jets, the leading private aviation company in the United States, has created a convenient and affordable way to give the gift of private jet travel to the one...
View ArticleEight Private Jet Operators Demonstrate World-Class Quality of Customer Service
Jets.com today announced that it has awarded eight private air operators its Circle of Excellence, an award for those operators who achieved a perfect score on customer service, during five or more...
View ArticleLeave that Automated System Behind and Go for a Personal Contact to Get the...
You want to shop around for your next private jet charter flight to see if you could get a better rate. You go to a private jet charter broker's website; you enter your itinerary; you get the $16,000...
View ArticlePrivate Jet Used to Ferry Seafood Delicacy
Oysters are so popular in New Zealand that some of the restaurant owners and gourmes charter private jets just to be among thoose very few who will try the fresh catch first.Chef Simon Gault, from...
View ArticleJet Source Unveils Fleet Expansion for Charter Services
Two new aircraft - Lear 60 and the King Air 300 - expand company's overall private jet fleet -- Jet Source, a full-service aviation firm, today announced the addition of a Lear 60 and King Air 300 to...
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