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good ideas to charter a PRIVATE JET

Private jet clubs like NetJets, Regent Jet, and BlackJet have proliferated for a decade along with – and no doubt because of – the indignities of flying on commercial airlines. These high-altitude clubs offer superlative service at a price: 50 hours of NetJets airtime can go for $550,000, making private jetting a massive expenditure for anyone not in the upper echelons of the upper echelons.

SuiteDeals is not the only empty leg program, merely the most convenient. AirPartner, an extremely luxe British private jetting company, offers discounts on flights around Europe. The discounts, which are released more than 48 hours before the flights, are significant, but so is the bill. A flight from London to Paris costs roughly $4,000, reason enough to take the Chunnel. Empty Leg Market aggregates deals, but offers more confusion than transparency (the interface is difficult and travelers have to call for quotes). Besides which, the point of impulsive luxury travel is not having to worry about the small print The point is to, however briefly, live as large as possible.

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