March 8, 2025
Flexibility without fractional. These Jet Cards have guaranteed pricing with reservations deadlines of 24 hours or less.
You want the flexibility to book your private jet flights on short notice, guaranteed pricing, and guaranteed availability.
Short-booking windows are typical of fractional programs.
At the end of 2024, the average non-peak jet card callout for guaranteed programs was 66.2 hours, so nearly three days before departure.
That was up from 23.2 hours back in 2019.
However, you’re in luck because these jet card sellers offer the shortest non-peak callouts—the industry term for the booking deadline—of 24 hours or less.
But first, let’s discuss why guaranteed availability and guaranteed pricing work best for last-minute travel when combined.
Many programs offer guaranteed availability with as little as 10 hours’ notice.
But they use dynamic pricing.
That means they will go into the market – in the case of brokers and get quotes.
Finding a charter aircraft with a crew ready to go and having it fly to Bozeman to pick you up and wherever you need to go is quite an accomplishment.
That said, you will pay what the operator charges plus a broker markup – dynamic pricing.
At the same time, a few programs guarantee fixed hourly rates with short notice but on an as-available basis.
If you call and they don’t have an aircraft available, you must alter your schedule to theirs if you want the guaranteed rate.
If you need to go somewhere on short notice, that means more calls and more dynamic last-minute pricing.
The chart below includes the provider, the specific program, the number of peak and/or blackout dates, and the booking deadline.
| Provider | Program/Comments | Peak Days/Blackout Dates | Booking Deadline |
| Fly Alliance | Jet Card – 25 hours | 28 | 8 |
| Magellan Jets | Business – Buy 100 hours per year for 3 years | 20 | 10 |
| Magellan Jets | Business – Buy 100 hours per year | 20 | 12 |
| Outlier Jets | Jet Card – 15 hours for first-time customers | 21 | 22 |
| Air Charter Service | Empyrean Platinum Jet Card – 25 hours – Dynamic Pricing on Peak Days | 29 | 24 |
| FlyExclusive | Jet Club – $100,000 minimum; Fixed, variable surcharge to book at 24-to-96 hours | 35 | 24 |
| Magellan Jets | Premium Jet Card – 25 hours; 25% surcharge to book 24-to-48 hours | 20 | 24 |
| Magellan Jets | Cabin Category Jet Card – 25 hours; 25% surcharge to book at 24-to-96 hours | 40 | 24 |
| Manifest Travel Club | Jet Card – Fixed, variable surcharge to book at 24-to-96 hours | 45 | 24 |
| NetJets | 320Card – 25 hours; 45 peak days and 45 blackout dates | 90 | 24 |
| NetJets | 275Card – 25 hours; 90 blackout dates | 90 | 24 |
| Nicholas Air | Rise Card – starts at $200,000 with fleet access and no-interchange fee (except G600) | 29 | 24 |
| Nicholas Air | Blue Card – begins at 15 hours and is aircraft-specific | 29 | 24 |
| PlaneSense | Cobalt Card – PC-12 and PC-24; No surcharge and 48-hour callout for peak days. | 99 | 24 |
| VistaJet | Program – 50 + hours per year for 3 years | 10 | 24 |
| VistaJet | VJ25 – 25-49 hours per year for 3 years | 20 | 24 |
Source: Private Jet Card Comparisons V50 2025
Remember that booking deadlines are typically longer on peak days, sometimes as many as 10 days.
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