The latest lawsuits allege high-pressure sales tactics, repeated sales to clients with already large balances, and widespread deep discounts.
At least 10 lawsuits are now pending against OneFlight International after five more filings last week.
Like the others, the most recent lawsuits are from customers left with six-figure balances for future flights.
The Colorado-based jet card broker paused operations on September 16, 2026.
In addition to naming the company, all the lawsuits name its CEO, Ferren Rajput.
Executive Vice President Mark Dismuke has been named in multiple lawsuits.
At least three filings now name OneFlight sales executives as defendants.
The most recent filings are from Daniel and Sherrie Dwyer; Aaron Hilldebrand; Victor and Lana Fuchs along with Helix Enterprises; Gregory Deal, and Robert Klimasewski.
The lawsuits allege the jet card offers were presented as limited, and clients were pressured to act quickly.
An analysis of logs detailing over 1,300 jet card transactions obtained by Private Jet Card Comparisons showed deep discounts were widespread.
The analysis estimated OneFlights gave out discounts and bonuses equivalent to 77.9% of the cash it took in.
41% of the transactions came with bonuses or credits so large the deal was 100% or greater than the cash OneFlight received.
A typical deal gave a client who deposited $100,000 another $100,000 in bonus flight credits.
That meant they would have $200,000 in flight credits.
Some of those same clients were then solicited to transfer more money, typically at least $100,000, to gain discounts on future bookings.
A 50% discount meant that for $200,000 in cash, they would get $450,000 in flights.
Typical jet card deals give one free hour for every 25 hours, a 4% bonus, while 10-15% bonuses are considered generous.
The widespread discounts and credits gave OneFlight over $400 million in flight liabilities to fulfill from just $226 million in cash taken in.
Only 220 of the 1,309 transactions were marked as new customers.
A previous Private Jet Card Comparisons report estimates OneFlight clients may have paid over $300 million for future flights they are now unlikely to receive.
Like others, the Dwyers allege a pattern of multiple solicitations from OneFlight for more cash.
They made multiple non-refundable deposits totaling $637,500 in less than three months.
That includes $187,500 on March 10, 2026, $250,000 on May 28, 2026, and $200,000 on June 3, 2026.
According to the allegations, “Within the two weeks before OneFlight collapsed, defendants solicited plaintiffs for at least $100,000 more.”
Like the other lawsuits, the Dwyers allege the BAJit jet card broker created a “false image of financial strength” by spending “millions of dollars on marketing campaigns featuring high-profile celebrity ambassadors and television personalities.”
The Dwyers point to television ads featuring NFL Hall of Famer John Elway and Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec.
They also cited sponsorships including the PGA Tour’s OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic, TGL golf league, and the McLaren Formula 1 team.
OneFlight also touted its broker certifications from ARGUS and Wyvern.
“The purpose of OneFlight’s extensive marketing efforts was to inspire public trust and confidence in OneFlight’s brand and to project the image of a thriving corporate enterprise, when, in reality, and unbeknownst to its customers, OneFlight was subsidizing its extravagance with their prepaid funds,” the lawsuit alleges.
Like other lawsuits, the Dwyers claim OneFlight has the “defining characteristic of a Ponzi scheme.”
Dwyer, a former certified accountant, alleges that when he pressed his salesperson, Tonya Gaines, about Rajput’s criminal history (Rajput served time in prison for tax evasion before launching OneFlight), Gaines “repeatedly” told Dwyer, “I’ve seen Mark (Dismuke) pull these deals before if customers can’t make a quick decision.”
The lawsuit alleges the DocuSign agreement, sent on the morning of March 10, 2026 by Gaines, required Dwyer to sign and pay by 3:00 p.m. the same day “to obtain the discounted price.”
In late May, the Dwyers sent another $250,000 to OneFlight.
That upgraded them to Diamond membership (with shorter booking deadlines).
They also received a “round-trip flight (to Hawaii) for up to eight passengers on an OFI corporate Gulfstream for the cost of $30,000.”
On June 3, 2026, the Dwyers wired another $200,000 to gain “a purportedly limited promotion offering a 40% discount” on future flight bookings through June of 2029.
The filing continues:
‘Each of OneFlight’s offers to Plaintiffs was presented as a limited promotion that required immediate action, and each required Mr. Dwyer to sign and pay the same day or within a day or two of receiving the offer. On multiple occasions, Gaines told Mr. Dwyer that she had seen Dismuke pull deals before if customers could not make a quick decision. On one occasion, when Mr. Dwyer told Gaines that he needed to attend to his mother, who required assistance at her nursing home, and that he wished to review the deposit contract the following morning, he was told that the deal would go away. After Plaintiffs committed to each deposit, Mr. Dwyer saw that the supposedly limited promotions remained available, demonstrating that Defendants’ representations of scarcity and urgency were false and were made to accelerate the inflow of Plaintiffs’ cash.’
When OneFlight suspended operations, the Dwyers had an unused cash balance of $597,750.
The discounted Hawaii trip was scheduled for earlier this month.
DOWNLOAD: Dwyer_et_al_v_OneFlight_International_Inc.
Deal’s lawsuit tells a similar story.
He wired $815,000.00 to OneFlight between October 2024 and May 2026 “as prepayment for private charter flights that OFI has not provided and, on information and belief, knew it could not provide.”
In his case, he alleges Senior Director of Sales Waqas Nawaz “repeatedly solicited Mr. Deal with claimed scarce and valuable CEO-approved ‘100% cash match’ offers, representing that each was a one-time exception available to a single member on a first-come basis, that it had to be signed and funded the same day.”
DOWNLOAD: Deal_v_Oneflight_International_Inc
Victor and Lana Fuchs, along with Helix Enterprises, also allege that OneFlight was “employing aggressive, high-pressure sales tactics to close the deals.”
The Fuchs were sent an agreement for 25 hours on a super midsize jet valued at $323,000 for $210,000.
The offer gave them less than two hours to sign.
Less than three weeks later, they signed up for another discounted offer.
This time, they got 25 hours on a light jet for $110,000.
The Fuchs were given one day to agree.
Olu Abosede, the Fuchs’ sales executive, who is not named as a defendant, continued the solicitations, according to the lawsuit.
On April 22, the Fuchs bought 25 more super-midsize hours for $150,000.
On June 25, the Fuchs signed another deal giving them 25 more super-midsize hours for $150,000.
In July, Fuchs paid $200,000, gaining both $200,000 in flight credits and bringing his available balance to $430,916.
He also got a 50% discount on published hourly rates for future bookings during the next 12 months.
Between March 10 and September 14, 2026, the plaintiffs paid OneFlight $1,444,250.
The last transaction came two days before OneFlight management paused operations.
Fuchs was told if he wired $200,000 by 2:00 p.m. that day, he would be upgraded to Diamond membership.
A round-trip flight the next day from Las Vegas to Heber City, Utah, and back would also be comped.
DOWNLOAD: Fuchs_et_al_v_Oneflight_International_Inc
Aaron Hildebrand had been a member since December 2024.
His filing shows a $590,000 balance in flight credits when OneFlight ceased operations.
That includes 10 complimentary hours on a Gulfstream large cabin jet.
DOWNLOAD: Hildebrand_v_Oneflight_International_Inc
Klimasewski has flown with OneFlight since 2020.
In November 2023, Wheels Up had narrowly avoided bankruptcy.
Many private jet flyers were spooked.
Dismuke sought to soothe concerns about financial stability.
He wrote, “To put your mind at ease regarding our stability, we have been in business for 12 years,” then cited its ARGUS and Wyvern broker certifications as audits “including fiscal integrity.”
Dismuke also touts “a long list of brand ambassadors, from A-list celebrities to several in the financial sector endorsing our brand.”
He writes, “These individuals would not attach their names to OneFlight if they didn’t have the utmost confidence in our brand, product, and performance,” adding, “They are not paid to speak highly of us, but rather they are paying members like you.”
Dismuke went on to claim, “The core of our business is based on lower-cost upfront JetCard and memberships, not tens of thousands of members putting large upfront cash deposits to ‘help fund expenses.'”
Between December 31, 2020, and January 29, 2026, Klimasewski wired more than $1.1 million to OneFlight.
When OneFlight stopped flying, he had a $464,164 unused balance in his prepaid cash deposits.
Additionally, he had $490,000 in bonus flight credits.
DOWNLOAD: Klimasewski_v_ONEflight_Jets_Inc
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