Online private jet booking sites show fake prices and availability because they're not connected to actual aircraft. A $20,000 quote often costs double. You need to call a human broker or operator who can check real-time schedules and actually control the planes.
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Here's why you should never use one of those instant online private jet booking websites. All of those websites have a very simple formula crafted in order to give you real-time availability, but that's all fake. They're not plugged in with the schedules of the aircraft. It doesn't show real-time availability. So if the price says $20,000, odds are you'll actually pay about $40,000.
I think this guy is right. They usually want to hook you and then they want you to call. It's always the same kind of story. Oh, it just got sold or just got chartered, but we have this other one. And then they'll try to upsell you. You really need to talk to a human being who has real-time information. Who really controls an airplane. The difference between charter brokers and charter companies are that charter brokers are trying to find airplanes all around the world that are closest for what you want to use, and the charter operators are actually people who have the airplanes in the fleet and control the airplane. You have a little bit benefit— charter operators are just using the airplanes that they are operating, and charter brokers are looking at a fleet all around the world, but they have to call and check to see availability because instantaneous changes do happen. So really, it's hard to have an instantaneous response on
