Boat International — January 2018

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model costseats

£168.5

£14.5m

£49.5m

£40m

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The constructive use of formerly empty

return legs has allowed VistaJet to abolish

aircraft position fees, which have traditionally

beenafrustratingandunexpectedcostfor

businessaviationclients.Italsorecentlyintroduced

a new product to complement its Program and

On Demand flying solutions. VistaJet Direct

is a new digital membership giving priority

access to available one-way (set origin) and

empty leg (set origin and destination) flights

through its app on mobile and web. Currently

pushed to its European Program customers,

Direct is available globally now.B

Global 5000 £18,000

From £5,500

£50,000

Dreamliner 787 ›

Legacy 450 ›

Gulfstream G650 ›

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while over two thirds of searches are

performed by customers aged 44 or younger,

which is a significant shift for what has been a

slowly ageing industry”, says Stratajet’s

founder, Jonny Nicol.

With Surf Air and JetSmarter, you sign up

and pay a joining fee and a monthly or annual

subscription, rather like a gym membership,

that starts at around £4,000 and rises to

£40,000. In return, you can get unlimited

flights between a handful of popular short

haul destinations – San Francisco to Los

Angeles or London to Geneva, for instance

• and mid haul destinations like London to
  New York – on a first come first served basis.
  JetSmarter, which has headquarters in Fort
  Lauderdale in Florida, has just announced the
  launch of its SharedCharter services. These
  allow members to create personalised charter
  flights through the app and then offer the
  unused seats to other JetSmarter members.
  Members can be reimbursed in flight credit for
  up to 100 per cent of their charter costs.
  VistaJet offers an asset-free hourly subscription
  that allows its customers access to a fleet of
  identically branded aircraft. From two aircraft in
  2004 to more than 70 today, the service has
  soared. For its flagship Program membership,
  renewal hours more than trebled in the first half
  of 2017 and the number of customers increased by
  61 per cent compared to the same period the
  previous year. A further 6,000 new hours were sold
  in the first half of 2017 alone.

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Surf Air uses

the Swiss-built

Pilatus PC-12

charter cost

[per flight hour]

range

10,000 miles

8,000 miles

Legacy 450

Gulfstream G650

Global 5000

Dreamliner 787

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2,300 miles

From £13,000

PHOTOGRAPHY: SHUTTERSTOCK

6,000 miles

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