India’s Baron Aviation has launched a jet card program to encourage the country’s growing ranks of wealthy individuals to fly in a fleet of aircraft operated by an alliance of selected operators. The company’s fleet of eight aircraft consists of two Challenger 604s, a Global Express, a Falcon 2000, a Hawker 750 and three helicopters (an Airbus AS355N TwinStar and a Bell 412 and 407).
Baron has committed to buying blocks of flight time from several Indian charter operators, including Raymonds Aviation, which owns a Challenger 604 and two of the helicopters. It is seeing demand from new private aviation consumers, including wealthy women wanting to fly to Dubai on shopping trips. The company, which is part of the Baron Luxury & Lifestyle group, says that it is contracting for between 70 and 100 percent of the operators’ available fleet hours and on this basis says it is able to set the standards of service to be provided to its clients.
The group offers three levels of Baron Eagle membership, with members establishing a pre-paid deposit that is used to cover the cost of flights. The membership tiers do not cover specific numbers of flight hours, but do give guaranteed availability–based on 48 hours’ notice for domestic flights and 76 hours for international trips–and the right for more than one person to use each membership.
03/06/14 Charles Alcock/AIN Online
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Baron has committed to buying blocks of flight time from several Indian charter operators, including Raymonds Aviation, which owns a Challenger 604 and two of the helicopters. It is seeing demand from new private aviation consumers, including wealthy women wanting to fly to Dubai on shopping trips. The company, which is part of the Baron Luxury & Lifestyle group, says that it is contracting for between 70 and 100 percent of the operators’ available fleet hours and on this basis says it is able to set the standards of service to be provided to its clients.
The group offers three levels of Baron Eagle membership, with members establishing a pre-paid deposit that is used to cover the cost of flights. The membership tiers do not cover specific numbers of flight hours, but do give guaranteed availability–based on 48 hours’ notice for domestic flights and 76 hours for international trips–and the right for more than one person to use each membership.
03/06/14 Charles Alcock/AIN Online
