Navigate private aviation with confidence
Independent guidance from former senior leaders of the world's largest private jet operator, now serving exclusively on the client side.
What we do
Advisory services
- Fractional acquisition advisory
- Independent analysis of NetJets, Flexjet, and competing fractional programs, structure, cost, aircraft fit, and contract terms.
- Leasing solutions
- Objective comparison of fractional lease structures against purchase, jet card, and charter alternatives, modeled to your real usage.
- Jet cards & memberships
- Evaluation of programs against your travel patterns, peak-day exposure, and long-term cost of ownership.
- Charter vs. ownership
- A clear framework for when charter serves you and when a structured program offers a better long-term fit.
- Whole aircraft integration
- Guidance on how fractional ownership fits alongside whole aircraft within a broader aviation strategy.
- Account management
- Periodic, structured oversight of an existing program's billing, utilization, and contractual performance, and independent preparation for renewals.
Core services
Our distinction
Why clients value independent guidance
Private aviation decisions, whether evaluating a NetJets or Flexjet fractional share, a jet card program, or any other structured access model, involve significant capital, long-term contractual commitments, and operational complexity that most advisors have never seen from the inside. We have. That experience shapes every analysis we produce and every recommendation we make.
Experience
Decades of executive-level experience at the industry's largest operator, we have the context to evaluate what others miss.
Safety
We help clients ask the right questions about operational culture, training standards, and consistency, not just certifications.
Independence
No sales quotas, no operator affiliations, no referral fees. Our recommendations are aligned solely to your situation.
Analysis
Utilization modeling, cost forecasting, benchmarking, and exit provision review, built from your real numbers, not industry averages.
About the firm
The experience behind the analysis
With billions of dollars in transactions facilitated, thousands of accounts managed, and five decades of collective experience at the highest levels of the industry, Fractional Aviation Advisors brings a perspective to the private aviation marketplace informed by decades of work inside these programs. We are former senior executives of the world's largest private jet operator, and we now work exclusively on the client side.
Our method
What we examine inside a program
Before any two programs are compared to each other, each one is taken apart on its own terms. These are the provisions that decide what a commitment costs and what options it leaves open, and most of them are settled long before the rate is discussed.
Total cost architecture
The occupied hourly rate leads most conversations and settles the least of the answer. Fixed monthly charges, surcharge structures, positioning and escalation decide the number.
Share sizing
A share sized to the longest trip of the year carries that cost through every ordinary week that follows. Sizing is matched to the flying that actually recurs.
Availability and peak days
Peak designations change notice windows, departure flex and substitution rights, not only the rate. We count how much of a client's travel actually lands on them.
Contract terms and exit
Escalation mechanics, substitution rights, resizing, renewal and termination provisions govern the options a client keeps for the length of the term.
Residual value
For a share, acquisition cost is not the capital at risk. The depreciation down to whatever the repurchase formula returns is, and that belongs in the model as a range.
Operational control
Part 91 Subpart K and Part 135 differ in who holds operational control, how crews are trained and assigned, and what recovery looks like when an aircraft goes out of service.
Billing and performance
For a program already in place, the question shifts to whether it is performing as contracted rather than as marketed, across billing accuracy and utilization.
The same discipline is set out at length, section by section, in our overview of what independent private aviation advisory involves.
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Timing
When to engage us
The timing of independent guidance relative to a decision affects what options are available.
A significant acquisition, fractional, lease, jet card, or whole aircraft, is under consideration.
A current NetJets, Flexjet, or similar program is approaching renewal, upgrade, or replacement.
You need an objective comparison of providers and real costs before talking to an operator.
You want independent oversight of an existing program, billing, utilization, and renewal preparation.