Flying is back if you can afford a private jet
: show up to work — often in high-exposure jobs — and risk being infected, or quit and try to figure out how to make ends meet without a paycheck.The price of a round-trip, first-class flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport is less than $400 on United Airlines. Chartering a small private jet that can carry up to eight passengers from L.A. to Sin City starts at about $9,000 and increases with the size of the jet and the amenities included.
Private jet operators saw an immediate surge in demand after the pandemic reached the United States and government officials began to impose stay-at-home orders. Americans traveling abroad and students away from home in college turned to private jets to return home when travel restrictions led airlines to cancel thousands of flights between Europe and the U.S.
Leona Qi, the U.S. president of VistaJet, said more than two-thirds of the incoming calls to her business are from people who have never flown on a private jet before. But for most new private jet fliers, the attraction of a private jet is the reduced exposure to other fliers and places where the coronavirus might be lurking.
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