Buy your own fractional jet
Busy executives who used to fly Concorde are now buying timeshares in corporate jets—and paying no more for the privilege
How do the jet set travel now that Concorde has gone? The answer increasingly is in private jets. Not the conspicuous consumption of a company or a rich individual owning an aircraft. Nor is it just chartering a plane for a corporate meeting in Dusseldorf or a yacht party in Monte Carlo. The smart way to avoid the queues and hassles of modern air transport is to buy a share in a corporate jet in schemes run by companies such as NetJets and Flexjets.
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