Spare Seats on Private Jets

Is it possible to travel on a private plane for the price of an inexpensive fare voucher?

However, as our taste in destination becomes more extrovert, we have accepted the less tasty items of arrival as common - think of the break of day, followed by giant lines at safety before you push your way to the aircraft where the seats seem to get smaller every times you go flying.

Daydreaming at an altitude of 30,000 ft, where you arrive in a stylish private plane, is usual. Over the past few years, a fistful of start-ups have used technologies to disturb the private tourism industry and make it more available to the general population. Usually, this is done in the shape of flightsharing (clubbing together with other travellers and flyers to reduce costs) or empty-haul bookings (traveling with an empty aircraft to collect or disembark a Charter passenger).

It is the goal of these sevices to bring together willing pilot and empty seats. You will find Wingly at the end of the private range. It is a facility that works in a similar way to Airbnb by matching you with pilots who have free places in their aircraft.

Pilot will sign up for the services and, after verification, will provide you with the detail of their scheduled services, which you can then reserve. Drivers do not make a gain, but it is a good opportunity for them to get flying lessons and reduce the cost of their hobbies. Fast searching results in a single ticket from Hannover to Berlin for 99 (129 is the best value on the same day) or Paris to Strasbourg for 122 (a significant savings over the 213 equivalents of a low cost airline).

When Wingly is the Airbnb of private air travel, Surf Air is the Spotify. The members are paying a monthly fee of almost 2.000 , and although this seems unaffordable, the number of trips you can make is limitless and the offered goals are constantly increasing. Surf Air has also significantly improved the jet qualities, as its Surf Air portfolio consists of Embraer Phenom 300 executives and Pilatus PC-12s manufactured in Switzerland.

You will also be able to take advantage of all the benefits of private jets that you would normally connect with the wealthy and celebrities - we speak of private terminal, no queuing, luxury lounge and guarantee windows every one. On the upper end of the private jets, there are facilities such as Victor, which offers a blank route reservation system.

Jets are becoming more luxury (do you think travelling is more likely to be associated with leaders ) and targets further away, but the costs of a fare are likely to be above most people's means. But if you and nine of your boyfriends are in London on a Monday with a common wish to be in Ibiza on Tuesday afternoons and you don't care to share the 19,000 euros for a Falcon 2000LX private plane, can you really imagine a better way to get there?