Discussion And Experiences

JetSmarter. He saw a big opportunity to create a new business selling empty seats on private jets, with a modernised online booking process. JetSmarter can either pre-purchase flights from private carriers or negotiate filling the carriers' excess capacity. When their flight completes, they can refresh the app to use their tokens on the next set of flights.

Those factors have led 6,700 people to become JetSmarter members, which requires an $11,500 annual fee and a one-time $3,500 initiation charge with an additional cost for initiating a charter (there's no extra charge, however, for booking an open seat on a charter someone else sets up).

Today, private-jet app JetSmarter announced major expansion plans, adding routes in India, Asia, Latin and South America, and Africa by the end of 2017. The JetSmarter app will be come your ally and ultimate wingman. We've never checked a bag in. Fortunately, if we are flying private with JetSmarter, we don't have to check in bags anyway, but we go round trip like that.

You can buy a membership card to fly with JetSmarter, which will set you back $15,000 for the first year and $11,000 for each subsequent year. The initial availability of flights from new JetDeals and JetShuttles attracts new members. When I joined, there was only one type of membership, now there are 3. The original membership is now the middle tier at $15,000 per year but top tier gets priority on every seat which meant even fewer opportunities to use 'Unlimited' jet travel.

Using the app, users can book the flight, even a custom itinerary, in a few minutes and choose the aircraft that best suits them. Its new 30-second TV spot features two beautiful private jet attendants greeting a businessman, and will run for 12 weeks on CNBC, CNBC Europe, CNBC Russia, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Europe and Bloomberg Russia.

You can still use the service as a non-member, but you'll pay a higher price for flights and you can't book a free flight (yes, there is a free option for members. He founded JetSmarter in 2013. If the average flight was two and half hours and cost $10,000 an hour, JetSmarter's shuttle program would cost $260 million a year.

Offering an app that allows users to make reservations, initiate payments, and connect with other users, JetSmarter offers a convenient way for customers to control their charter experience and access the features and functions they need for the best possible service.

Petrossov said in a statement that the emergency flights were added to warrant members' safety and offer non-members another way to get out. JetSmarter partnered with XOJET, TMC Jets, and many other top operators so that you have the nation's largest fleet of private jets at your command.

After all, booking a private jet is different from hailing an Uber. My biggest fear with JetSmarter is being stuck having to cancel a flight at the last minute and getting dinged for a HUGE amount. Flights on JetCharter, on the other hand, can cost several thousands of dollars to arrange.

Somewhere between 18-hour delays and contorting your limbs into a seat you know is too small for you, all travellers, even the most die-hard backpackers, have wondered what it would be like to travel by private jet. Private air travel is getting the Uber treatment with some of the industry's biggest customers — members of the Saudi Royal family — investing $26.1 million in a company that lets users book private jets from a smartphone.

Not sure how JetSmarter wants to verify the membership materials and account statements passengers submit as advertised. Homes Homes offers JetSmarter members access to premium pricing on luxury rentals around the world. The company is hoping to go even further in that direction with something like on-demand" access to seats on a select number of private flights for non-members.