The jet card client is facing a $223,078 loss and alleges OneFlight was trying to get it to send $250,000 in cash days before pausing.
A lawsuit filed yesterday in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against OneFlight International and its CEO, Ferren Rajput, alleges the private jet charter broker tried to entice Five-Star Audiovisual, Inc. to pay $250,000 days before it paused all flight activity.
It is seeking $223,078 and possible other damages.
It is the second known lawsuit since the jet card broker, known for its BAJit television commercials, went dark on Sept. 16, 2026, as reported here first.
The jet card broker posted a notice stating it was “pausing all flight activity for the next 30 days, or until further notice, while we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of our current operations and status.”
“As recently as a week before OFI’s shutdown, its sales personnel continued to solicit Five-Star to deposit yet another $250,000 to its member account, boasting ‘funds that never expire,’ and soon thereafter ceased responding to Five-Star and its inquiries regarding OFI’s continued operations and assurances that it would perform services relative to two of Five-Star’s upcoming flights,” according to the filing.
Five-Star began utilizing OneFlight in March 2023.
Through a combination of credit card, wire, and ACH deposits, the company spent close to $800,000 between March 2023 and May 2024, according to the filing.
The Naperville, Illinois-based client signed up for OneFlight’s BAJ100 Program in May 2024.
The company paid $15,000 in initial fees, and then $160,000 in a non-refundable membership fee that enabled it to charter 100 flight hours by paying a $2,500 annual maintenance fee.
Between May 2024 and August 2025 alone, Five-Star paid OneFlight $560,000, according to the filing.
Five-Star had two flights booked when OneFlight stopped flight activity.
Per the filing:
‘Defendants additionally misrepresented to OFI’s customers and the public at large that OFI’s financial condition was stable and boasted increasing revenues in the hundreds of millions when, in reality, OFI’s expenses well exceeded its revenues; it was routinely dissipating, diverting, and exhausting its customers’ prepaid accounts to fund its operations and extravagant marketing endeavors, instead of protecting and preserving those funds, and that it was on the brink of insolvency and an operational shutdown.’
The lawsuit points to OneFlight’s Labor Day Special.
“On the eve of those reports and amid rumors of OFI’s financial and operational lapses, Five-Star’s contact at OFI continued to solicit Five-Star to deposit additional funds for services that OFI knew it would be unable to perform,” the filing alleges.
The Labor Day offer gave $650,000 in future flight credits for $250,000 in cash.
It includes an email from Sept. 8, 2026, titled “LABOR DAY: Exclusive Opportunity to Retain Your VIP Status — $650K in Total Value,” from Senior Director of Sales Waqas Nawaz.
Nawaz wrote, “Our Labor Day offering was the strongest promotion we have ever made available. Although it officially ended yesterday, I may still have a strong chance of getting an allocation approved based on your current VIP status and the fact that you were out of town.”
The OneFlight salesperson continued, “This is an exceptional amount of value for a $250,000 deposit, and I genuinely do not expect another offering to come close. For comparison, with a $200,000 deposit, the most I can currently offer is a $150,000 flight credit and five complimentary hours on a midsize jet.”
He added, “With the 100% flight credit match, you are essentially flying more than half off; so a 30K flight on BAJ is really around 15K; not to mention the 10 free heavy jet hours of even more added value.”
Nawaz concluded, “Please call me today if you would like me to pursue approval. If I can get this exception granted, I would not miss the opportunity.”
OneFlight had emailed a promotion for the jet card deal on Aug. 31, 2026.
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The previous week, the charter broker emailed clients imposing a 35% surcharge with immediate effect.
It told clients the surcharge was a “response to extraordinary economic pressures currently affecting private aviation.”
It rescinded the surcharge hours later.
On Sept. 10, 2026, Private Jet Card Comparisons reported “financial issues” at OneFlight after obtaining an internal memo from the company.
The first lawsuit alleges OneFlight has the “hallmark of a Ponzi scheme.”
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