Transparent pricing
What goes into a private-jet charter price
Most brokers quote one number. We show the whole stack — aircraft, fuel, airports, crew, taxes and our fee — so you can see exactly what you're paying for.
28 May 2026 · 6 min read
Ask most brokers what a charter costs and you'll get a single figure with no working shown. We do the opposite: every quote is itemised, leg by leg, so the price reads like a receipt rather than a guess. Here's what sits inside that number.
The aircraft, billed by the hour
The largest line is always the aircraft itself, charged on block time — engine-start to engine-stop — plus a short taxi allowance of about 12 minutes a leg. To keep short hops fair, we bill a minimum of one hour per leg and two hours across a day trip, so a 40-minute flight that holds the aircraft all day is priced honestly rather than as a single token segment.
Hourly rates scale with the cabin: roughly $2,300 an hour for a turboprop, $3,600 for a light jet, $6,200 for a super-midsize and $13,000 for an ultra-long-range cabin that can reach New York or Tokyo non-stop.
Fuel — only what's above the baseline
Fuel is quoted as a surcharge, not a mystery markup. We hold a contracted baseline of $3.00 a gallon; you're only charged the difference between that and the live market price (around $4.00 a gallon at the time of writing), multiplied by the aircraft's real burn. When fuel is calm, the surcharge shrinks toward zero.
Airports, navigation and crew
Every landing carries real ground costs — landing and handling fees, ramp and parking, a VIP terminal if you want one. International legs add overflight and landing permits with trip support (about $1,100 a leg), and crew who night-stop away from base are covered at a flat per-night rate. None of this is bundled into a vague "all-in" figure; each appears as its own line.
Our fee — capped and tapered
We earn a single, disclosed brokerage fee, and it tapers as the trip grows so it never reads as gouging on a large charter:
| Operating cost | Our fee |
|---|---|
| Up to $50,000 | 10% |
| $50,000 – $150,000 | 7.5% |
| Above $150,000 | 5% |
You always see the operator, the aircraft and exactly what we make. There is no second margin hidden in the aircraft rate.
Taxes and how you settle
Departure taxes vary by country — a long-haul private departure from the UK, for example, carries an Air Passenger Duty of roughly $1,450 a passenger — and we show them per person. UAE VAT of 5% applies where relevant. Settle by bank transfer and there's no card fee; pay by card and a transparent 3% processing line is added, never absorbed silently into the total.
Ready when you are.
A transparent rate in moments, and a concierge on call at any hour.
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