Magellan Jets adds pay-as-you-go options, fine-tunes jet card offering

Magellan Jets

The jet card broker is following the trend to attract new fliers by lowering the price of entry

A year after relaunching its jet card program under the Elevate brand, Boston-based Magellan Jets is doing away with the name, keeping many of the good changes, and seemingly adding more. It’s also launching two pay-as-you-go membership options.

Bombardier Challenger 300

Challenger 300

Challenger 300 profile, including current pricing, manufacturing dates, cabin size and passenger capacity, range, speed, baggage space, fractional ownership and jet card options

Bombardier Challenger 300 Facts

Originally launched as the Bombardier Continental, the Challenger 300 is popular for its flat floor standup cabin and ability to fly U.S. coast to coast nonstop.

The Challenger 300 and its identical sister the Challenger 350 are popular with fractional aircraft providers and also dedicated jet card options.

The price for a used Challenger 300 starts at about $7.5 million.

Manufacturing Dates

Production Start: 2003

Production End: 2014

Challenger 300 Related Models

The super-midsize Bombardier Challenger 350 was the follow-up to the Challenger 300

Fleet Size

As of November 2019, Amstat lists 453 Challenger 300s

Cabin Category

Super Midsize Jet

Challenger 300 Cabin Size and Passengers

Challenger 300
Bombardier Challenger 300 in a typical eight-seat configuration

Height: 6.08 feet

Width: 7.17 feet

Length: 23.7 feet

Seating Capacity: 8 to 10

Range

Full: 3,065 nautical miles

Four Passengers: 3,340 nautical miles

Speed

Maximum Cruise Speed: 541 mph

Normal Cruise Speed: 528 mph

Long-Range Cruise Speed: 528 mph

Baggage Space

106 cubic feet, all interior and accessible from the passenger cabin

Access

Fractional Ownership – Yes

Dedicated Jet Card – Yes

Pricing

Used Challenge 300s are listed starting at $7.65 million

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