Jettly Review

What if you could pick a luxury private jet through an app the way you’d hail a cab? This Uber for airplanes is not just a fantasy, but a full-blown reality.

Meet Jettly: a private jet operator that owns no private jets, yet lets you pick from a wide selection of luxury airplanes to fly to any destination in the world, that too after making a few selections on a smartphone app. Feel like flying in a helicopter? Or a high-speed private jet? How about a classic turboprop? Jettly has you covered no matter what kind of aircraft you want.

Company Overview

The Ontario-based private jet broker was the brainchild of its founder, Chief Pilot, and CEO, Justin Crabbe. Founded in 2016, Jettly is still a new player in the game of private jet charter services. However, the visionary and seasoned CEO at its helm has ensured this company could go toe to toe with some of the biggest names of the industry. With its simple model, transparent pricing, easy membership plans, and heavily discounted empty-leg options, Jettly is emerging as a big challenge to some of the most seasoned private jet charter companies.

Crabbe looks over Jettly’s worldwide strategy and operations. He also looks over all businesses running under the company.

Justin is a serial entrepreneur. Before Jettly, he has owned and managed over fifty online businesses, online stores, software service platforms, smartphone apps, digital products, to name a few.

An experienced pilot, Justin understands the ins and outs of the aviation business. He is very hands-on with his private jet broker service. Justin is continually researching the latest in aviation technology and business.

Complete Services

While private jet ownership is a chaotic and expensive ordeal, Jettly’s subscription is easy, organized, and hassle-free. By opting for a jet charter, customers do not need to care for its upkeep, fuel, parking, and logistics; and can focus on the leisure aspect of private flying.

Jettly allows customer membership plans and on-demand charter.

Membership plans

Jetty’s membership comes in four options:

1. Free

• As the name suggests, this plan has no monthly fee
• Customers get charged a wholesale price for their charters
• Phone, email, and chat support is included
• Not exactly a full membership. It lets you see what you will be paying for after becoming their Personal or Business member

2. Personal

• This plan costs a monthly fee of $370
• Includes 1 charter booking per month
• Members get a personal flight coordinator to look after their travel plans
• JET MILES included allowing passengers to earn frequent flier miles
• A monthly $20 in Jettly Eats credits
• Customers get charged a wholesale price for their charters
• Phone, email, and chat support is included
• Customers pay no initiation or contract fees and can cancel any time.

3. Business

• This plan costs a monthly fee of $670
• Includes 3 charter bookings per month
• Members get a personal flight coordinator to look after their travel plans
• JET MILES included allowing passengers to earn frequent flier miles
• Free Skype and Slack integration
• A monthly $30 in Jettly Eats credits
• Business members get free UberBLACK transport to and from select airports
• Customers get charged a wholesale price for their charters
• Phone, email, and chat support is included
• Customers pay no initiation or contract fees and can cancel any time.

4. Jet cards

• This plan costs a monthly fee of $997
• Includes unlimited charter bookings per month
• Members get a personal flight coordinator to look after their travel plans
• JET MILES included allowing passengers to earn frequent flier miles
• Free Skype and Slack integration
• A monthly $50 in Jettly Eats credits
• Business members get free UberBLACK transport to and from select airports
• Customers get charged a wholesale price for their charters
• Phone, email, and chat support is included
• Customers pay no initiation or contract fees and can cancel any time.

On-demand charter

Another option for Jettly customers is to go for their on-demand charter option. This is best suited for passengers who don’t frequently fly throughout the year. Customers can charter a Jettly private aircraft for a 10% platform fee per booking. After that, they are charged on a pay-as-you-go model. Jettly believes in removing middle-men and allows the customers to get the pricing from the operator directly.

You can get a price quote by filling in some necessary details of your journey on their app or this link. These details include origin, destination, whether it’s a one-way or return flight, dates, and number of passengers.

Capabilities

Jettly’s operation is truly global. With their massive network of over 1,500 aircraft owners, Jettly flies passengers to and from over 190 countries. Passengers can pick from over 250 types of aircraft for their luxury flight with a few taps on their easy-to-use app.

While Jettly doesn’t operate any aircraft of their own, their members can access from over 20,000 aircraft of all shapes, sizes, capacity, and flying range. Furthermore, you can even fly on a private helicopter. Ditch the traffic and complicated routes of the city. And fly in style and with ease to your nearby destinations in a fraction of time. Jettly’s helicopter options include single as well as twin-engine options. Twin-engine helicopters are better suited for large parties or multiple passengers, while single-engine helicopters suite quick, short commutes with one or two passengers.

Jettly has a partnership with one of the world’s most renowned chain of hotels and resorts, Shangri-La. Jettly Business members enjoy preferential room rates to any of the 95 hotels worldwide owned by Shangri-La and their partners.

Jettly has partnered with Uber to bring UberBlack to all its business members. A passenger flying to and from select airports in the U.S and Canada are taken care of by Uber for their transportation to and from the airports.

Market strength

Jettly, with its huge fleet of aircraft, has managed to fly over 24,000 customers to more than 190 airports all over the world. This has allowed Jettly to record a 458% year-over-year revenue growth.

Jettly has over 30,000 users of its app since its launch in 2016. They receive and go through thousands of flight requests every week. Jettly’s biggest competitor in the region is Warren Buffet’s NetJets. However, Jettly’s revolutionary membership and pricing options continue to bridge the gap between the Canadian broker and the North American operator.

Customers Trust, Feedback

Jettly believes in full transparency and charges the customer with nothing other than the prices clearly stated to them. The private jet flying experience is meant to be full of luxury and free from worries. Jettly takes the hassle of converting percentages and calculating taxes away from the customer by showing the total expenses fully and transparently.

This transparency is not limited to just prices; Jettly customers get complete aircraft details and seating arrangements before their flight. This propagates the fact that Jettly believes in full disclosure.

Offer, Promotion, Discounts

Passengers can find empty leg flights to save up to 75% of a regular commercial flight price. Jettly claims by opting for an empty leg seat, passengers can live the private jet experience while saving up to a whopping $14,873, as some Jettly passengers have managed to do.

Jettly isn’t one to shy away from advertising these empty leg flights. On the contrary, not only does Jettly provide complete information on how customers can take full advantage of these empty leg flights, but also where they can book these flights to score even deeper discounts. While booking a private jet can cost up to $14,000, you can avail these flights for as low as $150!

To get up-to-date information about the best empty leg deals, you can sign up for Jettly’s notification service here. Let Jettly’s team pick the best deals for you, for absolutely free.

Frequent fliers using Jettly’s services also get frequent flier miles. With Jettly’s JET MILES program, frequent travelers can redeem their accumulated miles to lower membership fees or to get special discounts on exclusive events, movies, concerts, theme parks, car rentals, etc. JET MILES allow passengers to build $10 for every 1000 miles they fly.

Future growth planning

Jettly’s owner and CEO, Justin Crabbe, said in an interview, “We hope to continue to democratize private air travel and make it more accessible to the mass market through strategic partnerships with key private aviation players on a global basis. The goal is to drive the overall costs low enough that society sees private aviation as a viable alternative to commercial air travel. This can (potentially) be done through the purchase of aircraft assets retrofitted to the standards of first-class cabins, however, done through the entire aircraft, not just at the forward fuselage that you normally find on a commercial aircraft. Essentially creating a first-class only airline.”

Conclusion

With their commission-free model, transparent pricing, customer-first philosophy, and easy-to-use platform, Jettly was successfully able to expand its operation to the whole world. Customers of this private jet broker are loyal and have praised its flat monthly rates and hassle-free booking process. Their different approach towards private jet charter has earned them the trust of their customers and the contempt of their competitors.