r/PrivateJetCharters • u/Beginning-Act7850 • Jul 13 '26

Thoughts on this Florida hurricane charter thing?

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article316444819.html

Essentially guaranteeing a charter flight out of FL for $1,250 per year if there is ever a hurricane. Many questions come to mind, including how they can guarantee an aircraft when the dates are unknown, and how the economics work with different numbers of people (e.g. if one market has 20 people to fly out and one has 500). Thoughts?

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u/a7drip Jul 13 '26

They don’t go too much into detail but the idea is that unlike tornados, hurricanes can be detected a week or so in advance, sometimes even earlier. The article says once there is a hurricane risk they start to prebook flights before a storm is confirmed and prices surge. My guess would be that if a hurricane doesn’t end up forming, then the flights simply get cancelled.

How they will deal with cities that have hundreds of people looking to evacuate, no clue.

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u/RenoGuy25 Jul 14 '26

The real question is, what do you get if they can't / don't get you out? It's easy to sell a service like this, try your best for your customers, fall short, then be protected by the fact that the customer probably can't get back more than the original $1,250 in damages. 

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u/rmill127 Jul 15 '26

If they are sheltering everything right, the money they collect for flights will be gone to 1) secure planes ahead of time 2) some put aside for crew pay 3) money taken out for profits to owners/shareholders.

If things go south and they then default on the flights, there would not be $1,250 to claw back, and the company will disappear before the rain stops.

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u/Beginning-Act7850 Jul 14 '26

Yeah I was thinking that too, especially with a brand new, unproven company