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With the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic causing airlines to slash flights and routes, more and more people are finding the need to turn to private aviation, at least for the moment.
Add JetSuite to the latest provider reducing the entry points for its guaranteed availability, fixed-rate charter product.
Glory days, well, they’ll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye
– Bruce Springstein
No doubt, many of those involved in manufacturing private jets recall fondly 2008. That’s when the industry delivered 1,317 new business jets. It was an increase from 2007’s then-record mark of 1,137 new private jets delivered. That busted the 2006 numbers, also a then-record of 887 units delivered.
With the Great Recession, deliveries of new private jets dropped to 874 units in 2009, even more to 767 in 2010, then 696 in 2011, before bottoming out in 2012 at 672 aircraft.
Having recently added Phoenix, Seattle, and Portland, JSX is now adding back Reno, Nevada to the fast-growing.
Beginning May 8 JSX will serve Reno from both Las Vegas and Burbank with fares starting as low as $119.
The first month of the new decade began the way the old decade ended. The results were mixed. There were clear winners and losers. And, it’s hard to say what it means, except that private jet travel continues to ebb and flow.
TRAQPak’s review of year-over-year flight activity from January 2020 compared to January 2019 indicates a 0.5% drop.
Activity by fractional operators was the clear star, jumping 6.6% compared to a year go.
Private jet charter and jet card operator JetSuite and JSX, a by-the-seat scheduled service with daily flights from private terminals, received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI).
The CEI benchmarking survey and report measure corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.
