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Old Aug 27, 2014 | 1:06 pm
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JW76
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
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Originally Posted by 84fiero
I'm curious, how do those compare in price to an F ticket (generally speaking)?
More expensive. Always. But you get an entire plane. The absolute smallest (4-seater Phenom 100) jets are about $2500/hr and up, and at 500 mph... you are looking at $5/mile in the best case. Assuming you are gonna take it on a roundtrip (so no charge for positioning). Bigger jets are even more.

But if you are flying, say, the entire board of your company ... to a remote location ... on a per-person basis, it's possibly comparable to F in price. And faster. And it goes direct to where you want to go. With no stopovers. On your schedule. Etc. In other words .... you get what you pay for.

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