Almost everyone compares private aviation to commercial on flight time. It is the wrong number. Flight time is the one part of the journey where the two are closest together, and the part that occupies the smallest share of your day.
Measure the whole journey, not the flight
Flying commercially from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, a realistic accounting looks like two hours from arriving at the terminal to being aboard, roughly an hour in the air, and another half hour at the far end for deplaning and baggage. Around three and a half hours of your day, most of it spent standing in a queue you did not choose to join.
From Van Nuys, the same trip is about five minutes from the curb to the aircraft, an hour in the air, and about five minutes at the other end. The airplane is not dramatically faster. Everything around the airplane is.
The airplane is not dramatically faster. Everything around the airplane is.
Roughly two thirds of the day, given back
Door to door, that is a saving of around two thirds of the total journey. And it compounds. A same-day return that is impossible commercially becomes routine. Two cities in a working day becomes ordinary. Nobody sleeps in a hotel because of a schedule.
Our clients' most precious resource is time. Everything else we do — the catering, the ground coordination, the FBO partnerships, the fact that your dog sits in the cabin next to you — exists to protect the hours we just handed back.
