JetSmarter

JetSmarter. New SharedCharter seats create new JetShuttles and JetDeals. JetSmarter is a mobile marketplace for privet jet charters that operate across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Luckily, would-be customers can break each of these prominent companies down to compare and contrast the benefits and drawbacks of each carrier, and find the modern jet charter service that's right for their upcoming flight or event.

You pick your travel time, aircraft, and how many seats you need, and JetSmarter will offer the remaining seats to fellow members. The company will offer shuttle flights in Europe on routes including London-Paris and Paris-Geneva starting April after organizing flights between Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in December.

I was up for renewal this month, and after speaking with the reps, I was able to negotiate that I would renew for the "simple" membership, which gives me one token instead of two, and I still get jet deals and so on. It's 5000 instead of 10 or more depending on whenever you got your smart membership.

A major chunk of people still rely on commercial airlines or searches for cheap promo tickets for booking private jets. After becoming a member, Martz could use the JetSmarter mobile app to reserve flights on a private jet whenever he liked. The inconvenience of traditional private jet booking services suggested the need for JetSmarter and similar on-demand services.

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.

As we mentioned in one of our previous articles, online private jet charter booking is not a novelty today. JetSmarter allows passengers to book flights on a pay-as-you-go basis or offers an annual membership allowing unlimited travel for £6,450. With the ability to secure a flight under the "shared" service, Petrossov said JetSmarter is more directly competing with commercial airlines.

Membership also affords flexible cancellation policies, higher-priority booking, peak day fee waiver, and access to something called the JetSuite Insider Program, which allows a member's family and friends to get a deal on their first trip with the company.

That leaves a few questions in regards to the match which I have sent to JetSmarter but since it's weekend I haven't gotten a reply yet. Before JetSmarter, private jet companies would lose money on these empty leg flights. Whether you're looking to book private jets for business or pleasure, we bring you luxury air travel at a fraction of the price of a traditional private jet charter.

Judging by the way it has been received in the market (FYI, the app allows a flight to be booked in just about three minutes), JetSmarter certainly seems to have achieved its founding goals. Several startups are coming up to provide ‘Uber for Private Jet' services for instant bookings of private jet charters.

They are trying to get to some light at the end of the tunnel in terms of profitability, but it's not going to happen," argues Peter Maestrales, the founder of Airstream Jets, a private charter company. The company uses in-flight, real-time weather mapping and innovative safe taxi technology, which allows pilots to be as aware as possible about the circumstances surrounding their flights.

I didn't even know about these features when I signed up with JetSmarter. CustomShuttle is JetSmarter service that lets you create your own" shuttle. During the past year, more than 45,000 unique passengers have flown using the JetSmarter app , which offers more than 50 routes across three continents, with upcoming service in Asia and South America.

Thanks to an awesome (and short-lived) JetSmarter promotion , those who could demonstrate they had certain airline elite status or a million miles and points could have a free JetSmarter Simple membership for three months. Whereas aviation company XOJet focuses mostly on digital advertising , JetSmarter debuted a seven-figure TV ad buy on April 15, after raising around $52 million in the new funding.