The Englewood, Colorado-based jet card membership program offers guaranteed one-way hourly prices on more than 50 aircraft types from the King Air to a Gulfstream G650.
One drawback of many jet cards is that you choose a category of private jet, typically Light Jet, Midsize Jet, SuperMid, and Heavy Jet, and while many programs allow you to upgrade or downgrade your category, the provider can give you any aircraft in that category that fits its sourcing criteria.
Fleet operators and fractional jet card programs, as well as a few broker programs, let you select aircraft types; however, ONEFlight lets customers choose from over 50 aircraft types, each with its own hourly rate.
Even better, you can choose whichever aircraft type you want for every trip.
To get the attention of jet card buyers in a market crowded with more than 40 providers and over 250 programs, ONEFlight is offering a limited-time 5-hour jet card priced at $15,000 and valid for one round trip on a Light Jet to any Continental U.S. destination.
The offer is all-in and includes full catering and car service, with no extra fees.
The catch is that the card is limited to a single trip, so plan a trip that’s at least two hours each way to maximize value.
In other words, your four-hour total flying time roundtrip would equate to an hourly rate of $3,750.
We actually learned about ONEFlight from a Private Jet Card Comparisons subscriber, and we have now been able to add their regular programs to our comparison spreadsheets.
Once we received the detailed information, we reached back out.
We asked Dr. Samuel Jampolis, chairman and CEO of American Outcomes Management LP, if he was still using ONEFlight, and he quickly responded, “Still flying them. They are very attentive and punctual.”
The programs work a bit differently than anything else we’ve seen.
You pay a $15,000 initiation fee and $ 2,500 in annual dues. You then buy into one of three programs: 25 hours at $50,000, 50 hours at $95,000, or 100 hours at $165,000.
You then choose the type of aircraft you want, from a King Air at $1,829 per hour to a Gulfstream G650 at $13,291 per hour.
If you bought 100 hours, you would add $1,650 ($165,000 divided by 100 hours), the hourly rate of the aircraft you selected, plus 7.5% Federal Excise Tax (FET).
There’s also the standard 12 minutes of taxi time per segment, de-icing (extra), and surcharges at high-density airports.
Full rates by aircraft and terms are available to paid subscribers of Private Jet Card Comparisons.
Reservation lead time is 10 hours.
The $15,000 trial card has a 14-day lead time.
If you want to choose a specific aircraft, ONEFlight is worth a look.
The two elements we don’t like are that your deposit is nonrefundable, and there is no escrow account option.
We think those are two significant shortcomings.
That said, being able to select from such specific aircraft types and change with every flight makes ONEFlight’s jet card membership an interesting approach.
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