Robert K Hillin, Jr. joined OneFlight in January 2026, paid $550,000 in three separate transactions, and only made four trips.
The latest lawsuit filed against OneFlight International continues a pattern of allegations that the jet card broker sold customers more flight credits even though their accounts already had large balances.
Robert K. Hillin, Jr. joined OneFlight in mid-January 2026.
He paid $550,000 in three separate transactions.
According to the allegations in the court filing, he made only four trips, with the first not until June 4, 2026.
The filing did not state the value of the trips.
Like previous lawsuits, Hillin alleges “the hallmark of a Ponzi scheme.”
The Colorado-based private jet company paused operations on September 16, 2026.
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Like others, Hillin alleges OneFlight used high-profile ambassadors, sponsorships, and third-party audits to portray itself as “financially sound and capable.”
The suit also names CEO Ferren Rajput and Executive Vice President of Sales Mark Dismuke.
The lawsuit alleges Dismuke “was responsible for supervising OFI’s sales personnel, and for soliciting and closing, personally and together with Defendant Rajput, large customer deposits, including plaintiff’s.”
This is the second lawsuit to name Dismuke as a defendant.
Hillin’s attorney writes:
‘Defendants used a portion of the funds obtained from plaintiff and other new depositors to service and forestall exposure of OFI’s obligations to earlier customers and vendors, and to fund an escalating marketing and sponsorship campaign — including sponsorship of the McLaren F1 team and PGA TOUR events — specifically designed to project an image of solvency and prosperity to induce further deposits by plaintiff and other customers, all while OFI’s actual financial condition was deteriorating. Its marketing materials emphasized the company’s ARGUS Certified Charter Broker and Wyvern Wingman Broker designations, representing to prospective and existing members that OFI met high industry standards for safety, operational integrity, and fiscal responsibility…OFI used these representations to assure members, including plaintiff, that their prepaid funds were being responsibly managed.’
Hillin claims OneFlight “represented its promotional offers as limited to a small number of customers.”
The lawsuit also cites a September 10, 2026 interview with Rajput by Private Jet Card Comparisons.
In that interview, Rajput said, “The promotions are loss leaders, but those loss leaders drive a lot of business. The phones ring; we create more business. The point is you sell 10 cheap cards, and you get those customers for the next four or five years.”
Subsequent reporting by Private Jet Card Comparisons, based on interviews with former sales executives and documents detailing sales transactions, showed OneFlight was conversely offering deep discounts and large bonus credits to most customers.
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In Hillin’s initial transaction, if he signed the same day and wired $150,000 to fund future flights within two days, OneFlight offered him $150,000 in additional credits, giving him a $300,000 balance for $150,000 in cash.
On May 20, 2026, Hillin paid OneFlight another $150,000, apparently to gain a 40% discount on OneFlight’s fixed hourly rates.
At the end of July, OneFlight “solicited an additional $250,000 deposit.”
That upgrade to its Sapphire membership, which offered a shorter booking window, came with an additional $200,000 in flight credits, per the lawsuit.
It also extended his 40% discount “on all flights through December 31, 2027.”
Altogether, Hillin paid $550,000 and received $950,000 in total flight credits, a 42% discount before the additional 40% discount on the published hourly rates.
Put another way, Hillin would have received $1.58 million in flights for $550,000, a 65% discount from published rates.
The lawsuit alleges OneFlight “knew it could not deliver flights on those terms while continuing to pay its operators.”
The flights Hillin took, according to the filing, were June 4, 2026, Austin to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; on or about June 11, 2026, Austin to Des Moines, Iowa; on or about July 13, 2026, Austin to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; and again to the Mexican resort, on or about August 4, 2026,
The lawsuit seeks “compensatory damages, treble and/or punitive damages” as well as attorneys’ fees.
Neither the attorney representing Rajput nor Dismuke responded to a request for comments.
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