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JetSmarter, a private jet booking app backed by Jay Z and the Saudi royal family, is looking to be an Uber-like disruptor in the sky. How we are going to do it is the next question, but we are taking baby steps to get there." If JetSmarter is indeed able to make private jet travel more affordable, then that's going to result in a major evolution in the way we as ordinary consumers choose how to travel - which is certainly a rather exciting prospect to look forward to.

You pick your travel time, aircraft, and how many seats you need, and JetSmarter will offer the remaining seats to fellow members. The company will offer shuttle flights in Europe on routes including London-Paris and Paris-Geneva starting April after organizing flights between Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in December.

My goal is to make private jet flying less elitist," Mr. Petrossov said. That said, if you are someone who is only comfortable flying with extreme levels of privacy, you might not like the seating arrangements available on every JetSmarter flight. JetSmarter gives an access to empty seats to its members (JetDeals) and establishes fixed routes between major cities (Jet Shuttles).

I would recommend Jetsmarter to any of my friends or colleagues. If you want to fly from Helena, Montana to Topeka, Kansas, then JetSmarter probably isn't the private jet service for you. Even so, it's still possible to jump on a JetShuttle with some flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking.

Wheels Up also has a shared flights program, allowing members to propose flights for shared travel with other members to reduce the cost of flying privately. If you frequently travel between any of JetSmarter shuttle service destinations, your membership will quickly pay for itself.

And my office is about 1,000 ft from the helicopter port on W 30th St. BUT shuttles are fully booked about 3 weeks in advance which means you have to know your schedule about a month in advance - I usually plan travel a week or so ahead. Upon landing at Dulles, I went to book the return flight but noticed it had disappeared from the app.

For every seat purchased, you'll automatically be reimbursed in flight credit to book future flights and extra seats. Courtesy of JetSmarter Sergey Petressov, founder and CEO of JetSmarter. JetSmarter offers scheduled JetShuttle flights and last minute JetDeals.

Virtuoso's statistics indicate that the number of private charter trips increased by 10 percent from 2014 to 2016, and statistics from the research company Euromonitor show that the number of passengers in the United States who chartered planes increased from 4.88 million in 2013 to 5.32 million in 2016 (this number excludes helicopter charters).

Traditionally, if you were flying private, this is how it went: You pick up the phone and call your jet broker, who looks at availability across the inventory he has access to. You give him dates and times, he gets the rates for that flight, and then takes a lil sumthin' sumthin' for himself.

My primary complaint is the type of people JetSmarter attracts. JetSmarter is backed by members of the Saudi royal family and rapper Jay-Z, and welcomed high-profile brand ambassadors like Red Sox legend David Ortiz and supermodel River Viiperi. Laser Kittenz partnership with JetSmarter puts the organization in a strong position, for now.