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Clarity for how you actually buy private flight.
The Private Jet Index publishes structured Charter Index Score reviews across six access models—from charter desks to fractional shares and FBO networks. No cabin glamour shots. No sponsored rankings.
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NetJets
Fractional & aircraft management
Charter Index Score · Recommend
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Fractional & aircraft management
NetJets
The reference fractional network for owners who want scheduled-like reliability.
NetJets remains the benchmark fractional network when the mission is predictable same-category lift rather than hunting the lowest occupied hour. The operational insight that shows up in owner conversations is interchange depth: when a primary type is in maintenance or weather-delayed, the system still fields a comparable cabin on short notice more often than thinner programs. Charter Index Score reflects that reliability and support stack; value is a utilization problem, not a brand problem. Owners who undersize the share or ignore residual and exit timelines subsidize the network’s consistency without capturing it. Model total cost of ownership—capital, management, occupied hourly, and fuel layers—against a disciplined annual hour forecast before treating fractional as “cheaper than owning.”
Owners flying roughly 80–150 hours a year who need on-time, same-category aircraft for recurring US and transatlantic missions and will fund the balance-sheet commitment that enables that reliability.
Buyers chasing the lowest published hourly, or households flying under ~50 hours most years who would be better served by a card or brokered charter with no residual risk.
Our mission
Private aviation buying is fragmented—brokers, cards, empty legs, fractional, and FBOs each speak a different language. We translate them into one comparable Charter Index Score so travelers and flight departments can decide with eyes open.
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