Practical, independent writing on buying, owning and flying private.
Teterboro handled 75,000 private departures last year and bans anything over 100,000 pounds. St Barts has a 2,100-foot runway that no jet can use. A tour of eight airports that explain how private aviation actually moves.
Every day, hundreds of private jets fly with nobody on board. Operators sell those seats at a steep discount. Here is how the market works, what it really costs, and the catches that make it a game for the flexible.
No security line, no gate, no boarding group. Here is exactly what happens between your front door and 41,000 feet when you fly on a private jet, with the timings that make people who try it once never want to go back.