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Old Aug 27, 2014 | 6:55 pm
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Originally Posted by 84fiero
I'm curious, how do those compare in price to an F ticket (generally speaking)?
Originally Posted by JW76
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.
IME, those who own a fractional share or a net jets card would rather pay for commercial long haul F to get their destination continent, then once there, utilize their share or net jets card for intra-continental trips.
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