Fractional News Articles

(ARA) ? Even if you have to fly coach for your winter vacation, make sure your luggage is first-class. High quality luggage not only looks good, it helps protect the things you?re taking along on your trip, from clothes to souvenirs.

(ARA) - Today nearly 8 million U.S. households own at least one recreational vehicle (RV) -- a 15 percent increase over the past four years and a startling 58 percent rise since 1980, according to a new study by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. One in 12 U.S. vehicle-owning households now own at least one RV.

(ARA) - We?ve all seen the offers.  Fabulous vacation packages in exciting destinations with wonderful resort accommodations ? all at a price that?s too good to believe.  So what?s the catch?

Own a share in a Fractional Jet and plan on traveling for the holidays?  How about a membership in a Destination Club, and  would you like to utlize your clubs access to a private jet to get you there?  With the holidays approaching many destination clubs, fractional aircraft and even fractional yacht programs will experience extremely high demand.  Quite possibly, if you haven't already made your reservations you may already be locked out or be required to pay a premium.

 

Ultra luxury destination club Ciel, headed by Ameritrade founder J. Joseph Ricketts, started to make itself known this week by letting loose the marketing strings and reaching out to prospective members.  With only 100 memberships available, Ricketts' Ciel becomes the latest billionaire destination club.

NBAA Convention Floor Sold Out For First the First Time In Show History

The National Business Aviation Association announced on their web site that for the first time in the shows history the convention floor has been sold out.  With 5 weeks to go before the annual meeting and convention close to 1,150 exhibitors have registered and over 5,000 10' by 10' booth spaces have been sold.  Included on the show floor this year are 11 aircraft and four helicopters the most aircraft ever shown on the floor.

Get a group of fractional aircraft customers together and chances are that at some point the conversation will drift toward billing and in most instances that conversation will include the dreaded fuel surcharge.  With the recent announcement from Flight Options concerning the launch of their Fractional First program, that among among other things eliminates the fuel surcharge, that conversation may be a thing a of the past.

Aircraft, Real Estate, Yachts, RVs and now Luxury Suites at sporting events.

Sports Shares Executive Club provides the ultimate in luxury suite packages.  Private suite access to premier sports, concerts and special events in selected cities, encompassing multiple entertainment venues, with a level of flexibility that is critical to small and midsize businesses.

SAND, warm sun-kissed sand, a spread of golden grains stretching out as far as the eye can see, the caw-caw of the seagulls, the lapping of the waves, the ...

O.K., go ahead and just shoot Michael Bevilacqua now. Right now.

"There are a lot of people out there who can't stand the feel of sand between their toes, and Michael is one of them," said his wife, Marisa Fox, a Manhattan-based freelance writer and editor. "I've always loved the beach. I find that New Yorkers crave what they don't have, which is a roaring surf and turquoise skies."

Mr. Bevilacqua, an artist, put it this way: "It's just not my thing anymore. I grew up in Carmel, Calif., and I was the one running across the sand to go surfing — but I think I O.D.'d on the beach."

Private planes look better as commercial air travel grows ever more nightmarish.

(FORTUNE Small Business) - Richard Arroyo was sitting in his Phoenix office when he learned that one of his company's drivers had rolled her beverage delivery truck off an icy road and into a ditch while traveling through Flagstaff, Ariz. Although the driver was uninjured, Arroyo's insurance policy required that a senior executive assess damaged inventory at the scene of the accident. But sending a supervisor out to Flagstaff entailed a two-hour, 145-mile drive from Phoenix. Fortunately, Arroyo had a high-speed solution. "I jumped in my airplane and was in Flagstaff in 45 minutes," he recalls.