63 chances to join mile-high club in style
YOU WOULD have thought it was an exclusive club with strictly limited chances to join, but, in fact, Britain is awash with private jets for sale.
One-in-six UK jet owners are bored with their lives of luxury and are selling up.
There are 63 on the market in Britain right now, according aviation management and charter firm Hanger8.
That is 16.5 per cent of the fleet in Britain, and means the UK is far and away the biggest market – next in line are Switzerland, Austria and France, tied in second place with 33 on sale in each country.
Italy has the highest proportion of its fleet for sale, with 22 planes for sale – 16.7 per cent of the country’s total.
With all this competition between sellers, the latest ruse among private jet peddlers is the spruce it up with a new colour.
“Owners need to find ways of making their aircraft more attractive,” said Hanger8’s boss Dustin Dryden.
“The cost of a re-spray can be around one per cent of the value of an aircraft, but it could increase its value by up to 10 per cent.”
The Capitalist is rather tempted, after a delightful experience this summer.
A recent holiday flight to the Med was pretty empty, so yours truly had a little taste of the luxury that comes with private flying – no queues, plenty of space to spread out and no crying infants.
The journey even came with a processed turkey sandwich (at breakfast time), so if that is anything to go by it is well worth snapping up a plane of one’s own.
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