Want to Fly Private? Here’s Every Way to Do It
Look, when you need to get to St. Barts once a year and L.A. every week, there isn’t a one-Gulfstream-fits-all solution.
Source: XOJet
Owning your own plane has long been a badge of success—a time-saving security enhancer that offers privacy, efficiency, and access to the world on your terms. But lately, not all jet-setters are choosing to be jet-getters.
Travelers with extreme means increasingly take a portfolio approach to aviation. They’re mixing and matching fractional ownership, jet cards, charters, jet clubs, and other options—as well as trips on their own planes①, if they have them—to get where they want to go. “No one of these is usually the perfect fit,” says Brendan MacMillan, chief investment officer at New York’s QP Family Offices, which sets up and manages offices for high-net-worth families around the world. A great solution, he says, “is having multiple arrows in the quiver.”