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Alliance Aviation to hike jet card hourly rates Aug. 1

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021by Doug Gollan

With record demand for private jet flights, jet card provider Alliance Aviation says its jet card rates will increase at the beginning of next month

Alliance Aviation is the latest jet card seller to hike the hourly prices on its fixed-rate programs. The move comes as private aviation is seeing record demand.

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Magellan Jets adds CJ3, Challenger 605 type jet cards

April 21, 2021April 21, 2021by Doug Gollan

Boston-based jet card broker Magellan jets has swapped the CJ3 and CJ4 from the Hawker 400XP and Challenger 604/605 series from the Falcon 2000 in its jet card line-up

Magellan Jets is revamping its line-up of semi-specific jet cards. The move is designed to focus its jet card line-up around Cessna’s Citation, Bombardier, and Gulfstream aircraft.

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Bombardier Challenger 650

Challenger 650/605/604/601 profile, including current pricing, manufacturing dates, cabin size and passenger capacity, range, speed, baggage space, fractional ownership, and jet card options

Bombardier Challenger 650 Facts

Featured by NetJets and VistaJet, over 1,000 of Bombardier’s Challenger 650 series are in active service, including the Challenger 605, Challenger 604, Challenger 601, and Challenger 600. The original went into service in 1981, and the most recent – the Challenger 650 – has been in production since 2015.

A new Challenger 650 is $32 million while used early model Challenger 600s can be had for under $1 million.

While lacking the range of Bombardier’s Global line of large-cabin private jets, the Challenger 650 has a nonstop range from New York to London, between Dubai and London, or from the West Coast to Hawaii.

Manufacturing Dates

Production Start: 2015

Production End: In Production

Challenger 650 Related Models

The large cabin Bombardier Challenger 650 was the follow-up to the Challenger 605 (production from 2007 through 2015), Challenger 604 (1996 to 2007), Challenger 601 (1986 to 1996), and Challenger 600 (1981 to 1983).