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Airstream Jets offering up to $2,500 off jet cards through end of March

by Doug Gollan
Airstream Jets jet card pricing

The jet card broker bases flight charges by miles instead of hours

Through the end of March, new buyers can save $500 off Silver and $2,500 off a Gold Distance Card. Prices range between $9 and $24 per mile based on size of jet and distance traveled. For example, a small jet (four seats) is $12 per mile if you fly between 1,000 and 1,999 miles, so a 1,000-mile trek would cost $12,000.

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Airstream Jets launches 2018 rate lock promotion

by Doug Gollan
private jet charter broker

The mileage-based jet card broker is offering customers who buy now 2018 rates for 2019

 

Airstream Jets is offering a rate lock giving 2018 rates for 2019 when you sign up before the end of the year. Airstream sells in two denominations, $25,000 (Silver Distance Card) and $100,000 (Gold Distance Card), plus the 7.5% Federal Excise Tax.

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Airstream Jets launches 5% Flex Discount for customers who can shift departure

by Doug Gollan

The jet card broker already offers discounts for roundtrips, hub flights and booking charter flights in advance

 

Florida-based Airstream Jets which uses a mileage-based model instead of hours for charging clients has added a new Flex Option Discount for its jet card members. Cardholders with flexible travel dates plus or minus one day who select the option will receive a 5% discount on any one-way trip. A seven day lead time is required. Final travel date will be determined no later than 48 hours prior to scheduled departure.

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Jet Card Insider takes a detailed look at the Distance Card from Airstream Jets

by Doug Gollan

The first and only mileage based jet card has a number of interesting features beyond its unique mileage-based approach

 

If the founder of Airstream Jets, Peter Maestrales, had made it to the major leagues, there may never have been a mileage-based jet card. Happily, as he was winding down an eight-year professional baseball career that saw him play in the Olympics he decided to return to his other passion, private aviation, following in the footsteps of his father. In this Jet Card Insider, we give you a detailed look at the company’s two card programs, including their strengths and weaknesses. To read the full Jet Card Insider report click here.

 

Airstream Jets adds two new discount hubs for Distance Card jet card members

by Doug Gollan
The HondaJet cabin measures 222 cubic feet

The Distance Card is the only jet card program that prices flights by mileage instead of hours

 

Airstream Jets has added Austin Bergstrom International Airport and Houston William P. Hobby Airport as hubs for its Distance Card jet card members alongside Dallas Love Field giving the Lone Star state three hubs. Cardmembers who originate and terminate their trips at any program hubs receive a 5% discount. Distance Cards are sold at $25,000 or $100,000, plus 7.5% Federal Excise Tax in both cases. 

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