Private Flight Services

Many new services make private air travel increasingly easy for more and more travellers. Wheels Up, the membership-based private airline, now has more than 75 planes in its family. Members also charge per-hour fares for services, most of which are less than 2 years old. Brief departures are perfect for the company's Beechcraft King Air A350i turbo-propellers, while longer departures are possible on the Cessna Citation Excel/XLS mid-size commercial jet.

Its Shared Holidays programme allows members to book places on the same flight as other members and pay the full costs. Wheels Up alerts members via its telephone application of greatly reduced empty trips and provides shuttles to favourite locations. As well as the recent opening of a new Palm Beach International Airport Florida retailer and the 200,000th flight, San Francisco-based XOJet has introduced a new series of loyalty programmes known as Access Solutions.

Briefly, the program awards rebates on eligible deposit of $50,000 for Select Acces or $100,000 for Preferredccess. In addition, it awards Elite Accessmembers flat prices for the purchase of flight lessons on lightweight, medium or supermid-dimensional aircraft. According to XOJet, members of Access Solutions also get prioritized network coverage (even on busy days), the services of one of its airline consultants, and free Wi-Fi during the flight.

It says it will soon build new alliances that will provide members with unparalleled exposure to various luxurious brand names, services, resort and other real estate. As part of the Rise takeover, Surf Air is planning to launch services from Texas or California to destinations such as New Orleans, Scottsdale, Ariz., Taos, N.M., Aspen, Colo, Sun Valley, Idaho and Cabo San Lucas in Mexico.

There are also planed services connecting the Californian net with the Rise net in Texas. The new SharedCharters programme allows JetSmarter members to accumulate flight credit by purchasing an on-demand charters flight and enabling the JetSmarter member airline to resell all available places on that flight to other members.

The JetSmarter is a Florida-based brokerage company that uses its telephone application to enable members to organize on-demand charters and give them direct contact to private jet seating on air travel on air travel. Delta Private Jet's ticket holders can use a Porsche SUV to travel free of charge from the airplane to the central air traffic control station when establishing links between private and business travel at certain airport locations.

Delta Private Jets, which also provides air frame charters and air frame operations services, and the car manufacturer were presented with their alliance this year. Transfers are available at four US airports: One of the 15 jets that Delta Private Jets recently added to its portfolio through its airplane managment services is a new Cessna Citation CJ3+, a lightweight jets with a cruising distance of more than 1,300 mile.

Headquartered in Las Vegas, the plane will be available primarily to clients in the West. The innovations included three medium-sized jetliners ( a Cessna Citation XLS, a Citation Excel and a Bombardier Learjet 45XR) and a supermidsize Cessna Citation Sovereign+.