Business Aviation 101: A Guide to Private Jets for Beginners

As the COVID pandemic brought about an increase in travel uncertainty, unpredictability, and inflexible arrangements, the benefits of business aviation shone their brightest. Private air travel for businesses is a $150 billion industry, allowing businesses to keep moving forward when opportunities arise. It allows them to travel quickly, efficiently, and safely, even when other air travel means are no longer available.

How can your business and its executives leverage business aviation? Here’s your beginner’s guide to business air travel via private flight options.

What is Business Aviation?

Business aviation is a collective term that describes the various options for business air travel as opposed to commercial flights. It encompasses many types of aircraft and travel options, including private charters from brokers like Access Jet Group, jet card memberships, and fractional or total ownership of non-commercial aircraft.

These flights are not only able to access large commercial airports, but also smaller private terminals and fixed-base operators (FBOs).

Who is Business Aviation Intended For?

Contrary to popular belief, business aviation isn’t just utilized by large corporations. Many companies of all sizes can afford and benefit from the multiple private flight options available. In fact, data from the NBAA has found that 97% of companies that use business aviation fall under the non-profit, small, or medium-sized business categories.

The people within the organizations that use business aviation vary, too. In addition to top-level leadership, private air travel is most often used by salespeople, technology teams, consultants, marketing teams, and even customers of the company.

How Can Private Air Travel Benefit My Business?

The value that private aviation brings to a business depends on the specific challenges you’re trying to address. In today’s fast-paced, competitive business landscape, choosing business aviation solves serveral inefficiencies left behind by commercial travel options:

Access to More Places

The United States has thousands of airports, but commercial jets are only welcome at a handful of them. Shorter runways pose landing challenges, not to mention smaller terminal infrastructure isn’t conducive to crowded flights. This means that businesses taking commercial flights are at the mercy of the nearest available airport rather than the airport that’s closest to their destination. This can add an extra layer of time and complexity to every trip, especially if it means renting a car and driving an hour or more to reach their intended destination.

?Private jets have access to more airports throughout the country, giving you an easy way to fly directly to almost any location. Travel takes a fraction of the time, giving you a competitive advantage when time is of the essence in a new business opportunity.

Predictability in Doing Business

Commercial flight schedules were turned on their heads during the COVID pandemic. But even before the pandemic, many business travelers risked commercial flight cancellations, delays, and missing their flight altogether when certain conditions arose. This delay in travel can be the difference between losing business vs making business happen. Private flights are more predictable because schedules are tailored to the individual. Flights never leave without you and the cancelation risks are much lower (e.g., usually only when weather conditions are too risky).

Flexibility in Scheduling

Flying commercial puts travelers at the mercy of pre-fixed airline schedules. Business executives are forced to choose the time and date that most closely matches their needs, even if they’d prefer different accommodations. This lack of flexibility is eliminated with business aviation because all flight details are arranged according to your needs.

Most business travelers say private flights allow them to maintain a schedule that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. At Access Jet Group, we can often arrange a private flight for you within hours, allowing you to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.

Higher In-Air Productivity

The conditions onboard a commercial flight are rarely conducive to productivity. There’s very little space to work, internet connections can be unreliable or non-existent. And you never know who is looking over your shoulder. These issues are eliminated with private air charter, as most flights offer onboard WiFi and plenty of space for laptops, notepads, and paperwork. Plus, the entire flight is reserved for you and your party, eliminating the risk that critical company information might be exposed to unauthorized people.

Greater Shareholder Value

The culminating benefit of timeliness, productivity, and access is the value you’re able to return to your shareholders. Business keeps going uninterrupted, allowing you to accomplish tasks and reach goals faster. A recent study found that private flights have a direct effect on revenue growth and profitability. What’s more, S&P 500 companies that use business aviation for travel outperform those that don’t by as much as 70%.

Increased Health and Safety

In the wake of the pandemic, many business executives and their companies are seeing the value in taking extra precautions to stay healthy while traveling. Getting sick and being unable to travel comes at a steep cost, as projects and deals are put on hold and potentially lost altogether.

Private travel isn’t a guarantee for better health, but it does bear certain advantages. For starters, travelers have the entire aircraft to themselves and have very limited contact with others. They also enjoy private terminals and security checkpoints, which further limits their contact. According to McKinsey research a commercial flight may have as many as 700 touchpoints, while a private jet may only have 20 to 30 touchpoints. When health is a top priority, the benefits of a private jet couldn’t be clearer.

How Can My Company Leverage Private Charter Flights?

While jet card memberships and fractional or total ownership offer access to private flights, nothing is more flexible than using a jet charter broker. At Access Jet Group, we work for you, not the airline operators. Our connections to more than 7,000 aircraft help you get the flight you need on your schedule and budget.

Ready to take full advantage of business aviation? Contact us today for pricing and availability.

ABOUT ADAM HASIAK

Adam Hasiak “AdamPrivateJETS” is an entrepreneur, President & Founder of Access Jet Group, he is a well-connected expert in the global aviation marketplace, and he provides exceptional experiences to his clients that range from C-Suite Executives, Office Managers, Executive Assistants, Travel Agents, Fortune CEOs, and other unique authorities for their global private aviation requirements. He has been featured in Forbes, INC, and Entrepreneur publications in regards to his private aviation experience, he responds to client needs in a sophisticated way by tailoring solutions to each client's unique requirements. Adam has spent nearly a decade in the business and is well versed in the global private jet charter marketplace. For those that demand the best in worldwide private travel, Adam is always ready to serve you.

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