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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]*shrugs* We can. Sometimes it's the same price to fly private, depending on the to/from.[/quote]

Can you give an example of a destination where you found similar prices to take a private jet? With approximate prices?[/quote]

DP here. Private jets within the US (small ones for 4 peopel) come to about $2,000/hour. [b]This can work out mainly when you are going somewhere less than 2 hours away _and_ there is no direct flight, so it becomes a 5+ hour flight with connections.[/b] There are places in WV, VA, NC/SC, and OH where this comes up.

For trans-atlantic, it generally does not work out as you need a bigger jet to do it non-stop, and that's $5-7k/hour.

For example, the middle eastern airlines offer really high-end first class service to London, at $10-20k per seat (for example Etihad's the Residence, though they are scaling this back). Why do people pay? Because it's actually better than flying private, and cheaper, as long as the scheudle works. You get a big plane with a room or two, sometimes a shower, and great food service. Things you can't offer on a mid-size private jet.[/quote]

So it's not cheaper, because that would be $8k for a roundtrip, and I doubt you are paying $2k/person for a business class ticket to small town deep southwest Virginia. The original statement was "Sometimes it's the same price to fly private".

It's faster and more convenient.[/quote]

Also, can you give an example of airports you are talking about?  United and AA have a pretty extensive nonstop network out of IAD and DCA to mid-size airports in those states.[/quote]

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