Flight time
Flight time, or airborne time, runs from wheels-up to touchdown and is the figure most people have in mind when they estimate a trip. A Phenom 300 from Miami to New York flies for about two hours forty minutes; the block time will be closer to three hours. Charter quotes may be built on either measure, and some operators use flight time plus a fixed taxi allowance of 6 or 12 minutes per sector. For jet card and fractional contracts the definition matters even more because hours are the currency: 'block plus 12 minutes' contracts consume noticeably more hours a year than 'flight time' contracts for the same trips.