Private Jet
Price Index

When a customer asks JetsFly for a trip, we send the request to the operators who fly it and collect their replies. Each reply is one quote. We take the price the customer was shown: the offer we sent at its price, or the operator's price plus our 10% fee for a reply that was not offered, converted to US dollars at fixed approximate rates. The same reply read twice counts once. A quote belongs to the month it came in.

Each quote is filed under the site's jet sizes by its aircraft type, matched against our aircraft catalogue. Helicopters, airliners and piston aircraft are left out, as are replies whose aircraft we cannot identify.

The price per flight hour is the quote divided by the trip's estimated hours in the air, counted the same way as our booking estimate: the great-circle distance of each flight at 85% of the aircraft's cruise speed (the type's own, or the median of its size), plus 0.4 hours per flight for taxi and climb. We chose hours over kilometres because charter is sold by the hour, and a per-hour figure lets you compare sizes on the same footing. Because the quote is the whole trip's price, the figure is higher than an operator's hourly rate, most of all on short trips where the aircraft flying in and the minimum billed hours weigh more.

For each jet size we publish the median and the middle half of the quotes (25th to 75th percentile), rounded to $50, when the month holds at least three quotes from at least two operators. A smaller month shows the last three months together instead. The index has no operator names, registrations, customers, dates or single prices. It is a small, real sample, not a survey of the whole market: one busy route can move a month, which is why we show the number of quotes behind every figure.

For a fuller picture, the private jet cost guide gives our estimated hourly rates and trip prices by size, and the market data page follows jet fuel and empty leg prices.