Get Your Free Private Jet Flight This Christmas For Free

Several days ago I wrote about JetSmarter offering a free trial membership if you have either top-tier elite status with a major airline or if you have have 1,000,000 miles or credit card points. As I mentioned, I never used this feature of JetSmarter, but let's pretend you live somewhere that had regular shuttle flights, like Dallas. With JetSmarter , a personal concierge is waiting to whisk you through an extremely simple boarding process. JetSmarter expects to operate flights between 150 European cities within the next two years.

JetSmarter will now have exclusive digital access to North America's largest floating fleet of Challenger 300 and Citation X super mid-size jets, providing JetSmarter clients with real-time availability and preferred pricing. JetSmarter has made headlines over the last two years as a fast-growing startup backed by big names.

JetSmarter already offers private-jet shuttles from South Florida to New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles and in the next two weeks plans to add flights to Boston, Atlanta and Chicago, Petrossov said. To make reservations for these JetShuttles, log on to the JetSmarter app, available for iOS and Android devices.

While flying private is an exciting experience, it's important to remember that choosing the right company involves understanding how the different operators work, what their business models look like, the differences between their membership plans, and what benefits they offer clients.

If you charter your own plane, as you can via JetSmarter either for your own crew or via a shared charter where you get credit to use in the future for each stranger" who books a seat on your selected itinerary, then you also get the added benefit of choosing exactly when and where to fly, but now you are in a whole other stratosphere of cost.

JetSmarter will not like this, but a big risk is that many companies that have tried to revolutionise business aviation have failed. JetSmarter is the world's largest private aviation community. Flying private is clearly better. JetSmarter's name speaks for itself.

Over the last two years, JetSmarter has earned a reputation as a fast-growing startup with a luxury product and investors to match. Jet Shuttle: The JetShuttle service is the perfect way to travel in style! Those were all actual flights I saw as bookable over the summer, with even more than that coming out of Austin and Dallas.

JetSmarter, which started in the US three years ago, has opened routes between London, Paris and Geneva. There are two tiers of JetSmarter membership, Simple or Smart. Now you can by simply paying a membership fee of $9,000 annually—and booking a private jet. Passengers will be able to book empty seats on luxury, business jets by tapping an app on their smartphone.

That is awesome at face value, but also remember you then don't control your own schedule as there is only one round trip per week on that route, you aren't earning miles and elite status you can then redeem for first class flights to Europe, and you are paying $15,000 per year on top of the weekly co-pay for that 3+ hour flight.

How we are going to do it is the next question, but we are taking baby steps to get there." If JetSmarter is indeed able to make private jet travel more affordable, then that's going to result in a major evolution in the way we as ordinary consumers choose how to travel - which is certainly a rather exciting prospect to look forward to.

Before private jet sharing apps like JetSmarter appeared, passengers who wanted to get away from commercial airlines relied on brokers or bought shares in an aircraft. With membership tiers that range from $5,000 to $50,000 , JetSmarter's higher-tier members can basically shuttle wherever they want as a part of their subscription, while lower-tier members pay a surcharge for flights.

This is a luxury business that offers a unique travel experience for a cost. The Simple membership is ideal for London-based professionals and offers all-you-can-fly privileges direct to Paris, Geneva and Milan, with options on seasonal flights elsewhere. Make sure to tag your holiday story videos with @jetsmarter and #jetmehome.