computerguy828

Greeting all Flyertalk Members. This is my first review. I am a plane geek and also a fountain pen geek!!

I have seen some of SFO777's posts on here about flying on private jets with jetsmarter, so I had to give it a try myself. Paid my $3,000 initiation and $9,000 yearly membership a couple weeks ago and have already taken 3 flights on Private Jets. 2 on Challenger 300 jets and 1 on a Gulfstream IV jet. I decided last minute to go to LA, so I took the Gulfstream IV ( I see SFO777 reviewed it this week) to LA and then was going to come back Mint Class on Jet Blue, however a flight opened up for yesterday from LA to NYC so I booked it immediately upon leaving NYC last week. It was suppose to be on a Citation X, but got swapped for Challenger 300 last minute. Personally this was much better, as it is wider and more spacious.

This was a weekend getaway for me to See the Ronald Reagan Library, LA Fountain Pen Show, Mt Wilson Observatory and Griffith Observatory. Kind of a nerd weekend.

There were a total of 8 captains chairs and only 4 passengers. I tried to take an many pictures as I could.

I was very happy the pilots were gracious and gave me a tour of the cockpit a couple times during the flight. They truly like what they do and it shows.

We were suppose to fly to White Plains, then take a helicopter into the city. Prior to departure in LA, jetsmarter called us to inform us that due to the weather, the helicopter would not be able to fly and that they would have a car service waiting for us. Once we got airborne, those plans changed as White Plains was not able to have us land. The consensus was to divert to Teterboro and on to Teterboro we were!

Jetsmarter had a wonderful woman waiting for us upon our arrival. I opted to take an uber instead of the car service they arranged, as I live in NJ and it was more convenient for me. She waited with me until my car arrived.

Hope you enjoyed the Pics. I enjoyed the flight.


















This video was shot by another passenger, not me.




























This girl greeted us upon arrival to Teterboro

Bretteee

Wow 45,000 feet.

It's another world. Thanks.

MarkCron

Nice report

farbster

I'd be curious to know what price each passenger paid...Someone might vomit if they found out they way overpaid...

flyertalker00156

Great trip report!

SFO777

Outstanding. Great 1st post and first report. ^^
Looks like a much more comfortable ride than the coach seats you were stuck in our HPN-VNY G-IV flight.
Nice to meet you on that one and hope our paths cross again.

fivevsone

thanks for the awesome trip report.
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eielef

You make us all feel so miserable now, feeling great when we get upgraded to Business or even to Premium Economy.
Thanks for sharing, quite a great experience!
Cheers
Eielef @Bar/MNE

Madone59

Nice TR, thanks for sharing!!

and

Welcome to Flyertalk ^^

gkbiiii

I think the OP has an annual Jet membership of around $8,000 which gives him unlimited flights for $0 and around $10 for other passengers. The more you use the membership, the less cost per flight there is, based on the fixed annual membership fee.

backdoc

I was on the same flight, it really rocks!

backdoc

The G4 was so uncomfortable, to me anyway. I was on the shuttle flight Sunday Feb 7, HPN-VNY.

Steve

SanDiego1K

Beautiful pictures. Welcome to FlyerTalk. With that great introduction, I hope you stick around and share more with us.

F 1

The chance to hang out on the flight deck mid-flight is worth the price of admission alone.

computerguy828

You are absolutely right! The cockpit is the best part of the plane and being able to speak with the pilots was great.