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“Ride more than thou goest…” says The Fool. He’s not wrong. On October 7th, 1963, the first Learjet aircraft soared through the sky and the business jet industry was born. Bill Lear’s vision brought the dream to life. Now, 50 years young, the world’s first family of business jets is still in the lead. Half…
We use our smartphones to book everything these days, even flights worth half a million dollars. PrivateFly.com, the private jet booking service, has announced its biggest ever sale via its iPhone app – a $500,000 flight booked by a family office in Saudi Arabia, for a multi-leg business trip to Europe. The jet, a converted 737 airliner, has…
Private jet owners now have (another) irrefutable reason to visit six-star Conrad Maldives: the nearby Maamigili Island airport’s runway has just opened to private jets. Only twenty minutes from the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, you’ll be able to land and be at the resort in under an hour, avoiding all those irksome bottlenecks at Male Airport. “Maamigili…
Already popular within the United Arab Emirates, it was only a matter of time before Europe got a taste of the Embraer Lineage 1000. Given the spec of the machine, it also won’t be long before you see several more. This first has been brought in by Hangar8 for its charter fleet and it’s a…
Fly Victor is an online market place for private jet charter and seat sales. It is the biggest innovation to happen within the private jet industry since the introduction of fractional ownership. For the first time, jet charterers can sell off surplus seats or empty legs to individual seat buyers. Since launch in August 2011, Victor has…