Delta Private Jets - Cyber Monday sale - 5k for a full year
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Delta Private Jets - Cyber Monday sale - 5k for a full year
It looks like Delta Private Jets is doing a one day only sale for its empty leg program Sky Access. It's normally $8,500 and you can fly as many empty legs as you want for free. Monday only (Cyber Monday) it's $5,000. Seems like a pretty good deal. Some interesting flights posted like Teterboro to White Plains and JFK to La Guardia but also Scottsdale to Las Vegas, Nashville to Pontiac, Vail to Kansas City, Atlanta to Philadelphia Very tempting but very short lead time. Flights are today or tomorrow.
Has anybody joined? Are you happy?
Source: Private Jet Card Comparisons
Delta Private Jets, an IS-BAO Level 3 (the highest) operator of managed private jets has set a series of promotions. Buy its Sky Access empty leg program during its Cyber Monday Offer, valid only on November 26, 2018, from 12:00am EST – 11:59pm EST and you pay $5,000 instead of the normal $8,500 for the first year. You also get one Main Cabin Ticket on Delta Air Lines and 20,000 Sky Miles. Through the end of the year – from November 27 at 12:00am EST the deal goes to $6,000 plus 20,000 Sky Miles. Sky Access gives you the entire aircraft for as many empty leg flights as you can book and fly.
Source: Private Jet Card Comparisons
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We did DPJ a few years ago on a $100K card. We also did a couple of empty legs, including one that just happened to work perfectly for Santa Ana to Las Vegas, which was great and didn’t count toward our balance.
I can’t say it would be worth $5K, but it’s practically Christmas and it might be a nice gift to yourself after a hard year — especially if you’ve never flown charter. It was a great experience and I’d love to do it again, but we burned through the $100K in 7 months and decided to not do it again.
I can’t say it would be worth $5K, but it’s practically Christmas and it might be a nice gift to yourself after a hard year — especially if you’ve never flown charter. It was a great experience and I’d love to do it again, but we burned through the $100K in 7 months and decided to not do it again.
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Can you join for empty legs only without putting money on a jet card?
If you book an empty leg, can you add pax up to the maximum capacity, or do they have to be in the program too?
If you book an empty leg, can you add pax up to the maximum capacity, or do they have to be in the program too?
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That's essentially the point of this particular program. Pay $5K up front for the chance that you'll be close to, and available for, an empty leg. If you live within 60 minutes of a major private jetport, you can do quite well if you have plenty of discretionary time to take advantage of it.
Getting back is the trick.
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It's a novelty. No practical way to use it for anything business-related, unless you count on pure, dumb luck (which is what happened to us... once).
It's a cheap way to experience private jet travel, but the stars really have to align to make it worthwhile -- and most trips are well under one hour, as it's just repositioning craft to relatively nearby ports for paying customers -- e.g. Teterboro to White Plains (30 minutes), LGA to JFK (20 minutes), etc. Our Orange County (CA) to Vegas was a lark, as we just happened to need to get there for a trade show, and just bought a OW DL commercial fare back. Even then, we needed to make the trip a day early to take advantage of the flight, which was basically an hour in the air. The plane was small, too. I'm only 6'2" and I'd be surprised if the ceiling was over 5'6".
Again, we were on a DPJ card and not this Sky Access program, so I don't know if SA allows multiple pax on the user's SA account. If each pax needs their own SA account, then the prospect is even less appealing.
It's a cheap way to experience private jet travel, but the stars really have to align to make it worthwhile -- and most trips are well under one hour, as it's just repositioning craft to relatively nearby ports for paying customers -- e.g. Teterboro to White Plains (30 minutes), LGA to JFK (20 minutes), etc. Our Orange County (CA) to Vegas was a lark, as we just happened to need to get there for a trade show, and just bought a OW DL commercial fare back. Even then, we needed to make the trip a day early to take advantage of the flight, which was basically an hour in the air. The plane was small, too. I'm only 6'2" and I'd be surprised if the ceiling was over 5'6".
Again, we were on a DPJ card and not this Sky Access program, so I don't know if SA allows multiple pax on the user's SA account. If each pax needs their own SA account, then the prospect is even less appealing.
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That's my question too. If the $5000 would include both my wife and I, then I might do it as a fun experiment. But if I'm looking at $10k, I'd have to pass.
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