AeroOne™ Newsletter
#29 November 2025
Dear Aeros:
Last month we featured a recent mixed pleasure/business trip that involved five cities in ten days. Like most things in life, there is no free ride. The bills are now all in and tallied. Total cost was rounded up to $72,000.00. Costs include fixed and hourly aircraft costs, crew costs (including remuneration, lodging, and meals), onboard catering and car transfer service throughout plus the usual miscellaneous charges such as landing fees, transient ramp and hangar fees etc. For fun, we ran numbers on what the same trip would cost if chartered or flown by airline business class. Air Canada was chosen as carrier because of intraCanada legs and cabotage. Here are the results:
Some quick thoughts:
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Flying private ain't cheap but it can be hassle free with absolute precision if one has a good management company.
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If you are someone who flies these missions more than three to four times a year, the additional cost of charter verses AeroOne jet ownership adds up fast. You can buy an entry level AeroOne share after Year One with the savings, all inclusive. Think about that. After the first year the money you save will pay for a quarter share ownership position, an asset you can hold indefinitely, sell or share at any time, or generate extra income by chartering out through AeroOne. You get the jet for free in the process.
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While airlines are less painful to your wallet it remains to be seen if the same is true for your body. And if you regularly travelling in groups, the AeroOne option becomes almost a no-brainer, in my opinion.
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Another example, this past week four of us embarked upon a six-city / four-day business mission. CYVR--KBOI--KRVS--KCMD--KFXE--KBNA--CYVR. The total cost of this trip was tallied yesterday--$44,852.00 for 15 hours flying time. Charter quote for same trip was $154,827. We didn't calculate the commercial option because two of the legs are not serviced by any airline. For those road warriors reading this, how does that resonate?
Bill Lear was firmly of the view that private jets are a business tool and not a luxury. Included in this Newsletter is a submission by one of our Genex colleagues, a passenger on this last trip. In it he gives his first hand account of the experience. I would encourage you to read it.
This is the AeroOne lifestyle. You've earned it. Are you ready?
Happy Flying
Roger Proctor, CEO
PS: Part 91 private and Part 135 charter operations are unaffected by the ATC partial closures disrupting Part 121 commercial flights. If you are airlining into or out of airports such as KLAX, KPHX, KAUS, KDFW, KEWE you should check before you head to the airport.
A Passenger's View
I was one of the four on last week's cross-country trip. In just four days we were able to hold business meetings in six cities from coast to coast in the US. We left downtown Vancouver for the airport and hopped directly on our plane which was waiting for us with freshly prepared catering, to the first stop Boise, Idaho (where we have an office.) After that we departed for Tulsa, Oklahoma and landed just in time for a late dinner. An early morning meeting the next day with lawyers, in person, face to face, was critical.
After that our car service was waiting to rush us to the FBO a little bit late but that’s okay because we don’t need boarding passes on a private jet. We headed off to Cullman, Alabama to pick up a business colleague and have catering brought out to the plane for a lunch business meeting onboard to Hollywood, Florida to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Guitar Hotel for an industry conference. In the two days we were in Florida we were able to arrive energized and ready for the event and dinner later that same evening. Without our own jet we wouldn’t be able to do the things we did in that extremely short amount of time.
Commercially getting to Tulsa from Vancouver takes two flights with a long layover in Denver and is usually around 8 to 12 hours. We were there in 3. Flying commercially, we wouldn’t have been able to pick up our friend to arrive at the event in Florida together as a team, which was important optically. There are no commercial flights from Tulsa to Cullman or from Cullman to Florida. Our colleague would have had to drive two hours to Nashville to hop a flight. In short, we wouldn’t have been able to accomplish what we were able to accomplish this trip by flying commercial. We saved so much time and energy, feeling refreshed and ready to conquer every stop on the way. And yeah, the meetings were successful.
There is so much more to business jet travel than luxury. The true value lies in what you are able to achieve with it.
Johan H. Wolff
