private jets

Models & Moguls Flock to Montauk Seaplane

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Yachts & Sailing, Wings

This summer, luxury charter service V1 Jets opened up its seaplane service from Manhattan to the Hamptons (formerly reserved for members) to anyone with the price of a ticket, and it's proved to be very popular with the gliteratti. The 40 minute trip on an 8-passenger Cessna, which costs $495 one-way, has been taken by the likes of models Adriana Lima and Petra Nemcova, actors Pierce Brosnan and Jeremy Piven, and mogul Barry Diller. V1 Jets was founded in 2003 by hedge fund manager Andrew Zarrow who envisioned a way to utilize the excessive amount of "dead legs" created by private aircraft returning empty after delivering clients to their destinations, saving money and resources in the process.

Tags: Adriana Lima, AdrianaLima, Cessna, Hamptons, Manhattan, Montauk, Pierce Brosnan, PierceBrosnan, Private jets, PrivateJets, Seaplane, V1 Jets, V1Jets

Lucky Jets Starts Flight Sharing To Vegas

by Tracy Chait (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

LuckyJets has just announced its carpool-in-the-skies, ferrying high rollers on private jets from Los Angeles, San Diego and Scottsdale straight to Las Vegas, along with additional popular casino destinations. Though you won't have the wings to yourself, a shared flight to Sin City could be ripe for the networking. And at $2,999 a flight with door-to-door limo service to boot, even if the tables treat you wrong, you're still flying high.

If you get in on the action soon, flying from L.A. or Scottsdale to Las Vegas, you'll receive a complimentary round-trip flight voucher. The deal is first-come first-served for bookings on LuckyJets' inaugural flight to gambler's heaven on August 8. Hey, if you're gonna play the game, boy, better learn to play it right.

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Tags: las vegas, LasVegas, lucky jets, luckyjets, private jets, PrivateJets, shared flights, SharedFlights, sin city, SinCity, the gambler, TheGambler

Londoners Use Private Jet Service to Party Hop

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Services, Wings

Wealthy socialites in London love to party just as much as those here in the U.S., but now it seems they've found a way to step things up by getting around that pesky "closing time" obstacle: they hop into a private jet and fly to a different time zone. What makes this interesting is that they aren't hopping into their own personal private jets, they're "jet-pooling" in planes operated by The Private Jet Club that are coordinated through Whisky Mist, a new club at Hilton's Zeta bar.

Even if they're continuing to party on the planes I can hardly imagine still being up for more by the time the plane lands in New York or Rio (the most popular destinations), but then I'm not a wealthy socialite with nothing else to do but fly around the world looking for a good time!

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Tags: hilton, london, private jet, private jets, PrivateJet, PrivateJets, the private jet club, ThePrivateJetClub, whisky mist, WhiskyMist, zeta

Slowing Economy? Private Jet Travelers Refuse to Go Commercial

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

Having or chartering a private jet used to be a big deal, a very special luxury enjoyed by only the elitest of the elite, but private air travel is practically a necessity for even "entry level" wealthy people in today's world. Even with the economy in the condition it's in, those accustomed to traveling privately aren't giving up the luxury in exchange for less expensive commercial flights. And although chartering private jet travel certainly isn't cheap it's not as pricey as it used to be -- as little as $10,000 will get you where you want to go.

If the economy has any kind of negative effect on private air travel experts expect it to be in how much people fly, not in the privacy they expect when they do. Many of those who use private charters and/or own their own jets consider it a necessity in their lives, not a splurge.

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Tags: commercial aviation, commercial flights, CommercialAviation, CommercialFlights, economy, money, private jet, private jets, PrivateJet, PrivateJets, spending

Corniche Group Delivers Travel Impossibilites

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Think travel agents are a thing of the past, a dinosaur of the pre-internet days? These days travel management firms do a brisk business in helping clients navigate the world. The NY Times reports on the travel services that go above and beyond the call of duty to make sure their clients get where they need to go. Corniche Group handles a variety of celebrities and also works with sports teams handling tasks such as managing housing for Major League Baseball teams during the World Series. Whatever their clients want, whether it is special accommodations at a hotel or last-minute travel, Corniche handles it. For those without the bucks to hire Corniche, Anastasia Mann, the founder of Corniche, has some tips on how to make the impossible happen for yourself. She says that if you need something unusual you have to be "extraordinarily aggressive and not easily intimidated. " The advice is echoed later in the article by Paul A. Tucci, author of "Traveling Everywhere: How to Survive a Global Business Trip" who says that being polite but assertive is the way to resolve problems. You may have to challenge the first answer from customer service in order to get a satisfactory answer.

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Tags: corniche, journeys, private jets, travel

Halcyon Jets $5 Million Holiday Dream Card

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

We've seen jet cards in the million-dollar range before but the new $5 million card from Halcyon Jets is causing a stir this holiday season. What do you get for your moeny with the Holiday Dream Card? It entitles you to access to Halycon's fleet of jets for one-way trips or round-trip travel, for single flights or multiple trips. The press release doesn't say exactly how long the card is good for but we hope it's a lifetime use for that price. Other ancillary services that come with the card include your own private aviation specialist and personal concierge to assist with the travel, dining and entertainment plans. Jets in their fleet include Citation jets, Lear jets, Gulfstreams, helicopters and even jumbo jets from Airbus and Boeing.

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Tags: halcyon jets, HalcyonJets, jet card, private jets

Google Founders Get Yet Another New Jet

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings

Those Google guys must really be into over-sized private jets, because they're at it again! Apparently having 3 private jets, including a Boeing 767, with landing rights on NASA's Moffett Airfield wasn't good enough for them as they've now added a Boeing 757 to their ever-growing fleet.

Although smaller than the 767 they already have, obviously the 757 is still a large aircraft. Why does Google need so much in the way of wings? Who knows really, but a move like this sure is to get people talking.

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Tags: 757, 767, air, airplane, boeing, boeing 757, boeing 767, Boeing757, Boeing767, google, jet, jets, NASA, plane, private, private jet, private jets, PrivateJet, PrivateJets

NetJets Europe Makes Carbon Neutral Flying Mandatory

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wings, Green

The move toward encouraging users of private jets to pay for carbon offsets has for the most part been optional with a strong dose of guilt. Now The Guardian reports that NetJets Europe has upped the ante by making carbon offsetting compulsory for its customers. The company is set to announce that all the new customers will have the cost of offsets added to their bills, adding around 4,000 euros to the bill for each NetJets customer. Existing customers will be signed up for the added cost when they renew their contracts. The chairman of NetJets Europe was quoted as saying in the article that he does not believe the added cost will damage sales and that the customers have driven this move. NetJets will invest in the carbon offset projects of EcoSecurities.

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Tags: carbon neutral, carbon offset, CarbonNeutral, ecosecurities, netjets, private jets

Carousel Condos

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates, Wings

If you really love your airplane now you can live above it. Carousel Condos are designed to be affordable hangar-home living. The hangar suites can be used as a primary residence or a second home. The computer-controlled carousel hangar area lets one person position the rotating floor at the hangar door to bring in or remove a plane easily. Each owner-occupant has equal access to the environmentally controlled hangar and an upper level suite. Expenses in the common hangar areas are shared by utilities for the suites are separate for each owner.

[via General Aviation News]

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Tags: airplanes, carousel condos, CarouselCondos, hangars, private jets

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