Originally Posted by
jtf560
Lots of fractional owners arrange it themselves coming off whatever airline brought them in internationally. Most often at JFK, LAX, or SFO. It is very expensive to fly on private jets domestically and astoundingly expensive for long international trips. I'd have to guess a minimum of 70K to cross the Atlantic- probably around 100K in a G-IV or V. I don't even want to think how expensive it would be to do Asia. It's nice to see NJE get the flying back after Lufthansa thought they could do it themselves cheaper and then failed miserably. Delta has Delta Air Elite to do it themselves in the US and has been doing it for quite a while. United tried and failed miserably back in 2001 after sinking in tens of millions and not getting any passenger legs flown.
It's quite a bit about timing and marketing as well. AMR-Combs started their response to netjets in 1994 and turned it into Flexjet in '95. UAL simply started it too late (reminds me of Virgin America) as well as just prior to 9/11. Your 70K quote above is a bit light, by the way. If you bought a 25 hour G-IV card from netjets, for example, you would be looking at $16K/hour or $130K for an 8-hour trip, each way.