Jet Card

A jet card is a prepaid block of private-flight hours at a fixed or capped hourly rate, with guaranteed availability and set lead times. You're buying access, not an asset — simpler and lower-commitment than fractional or full ownership, and a common step up from ad-hoc charter.

Why it matters: a jet card is prepaid charter with guaranteed availability and locked hourly rates — the predictability of a programme without owning anything. For flyers in the tens of hours per year, it removes the quoting, vetting and variability of ad-hoc charter.

The economics live in the terms rather than the headline rate: peak-day surcharges and blackout rules, callout notice required, how positioning is charged, expiry of funds, and which aircraft categories the rate actually covers. Cards reward careful terms-reading — two cards with similar rates can price the same year of flying very differently.