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Industry | Aviation |
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Founder | Adam Twidell & Carol Cork |
Headquarters | United Kingdom |
Key people | Adam Twidell CEO |
Services | private jet charter, Jet Card, City Pairs |
Owner | Directional Aviation |
Parent | Directional Aviation |
Website | privatefly |
PrivateFly is a global private jet charter broker company with websites covering 19 countries: (Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Qatar, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, United Kingdom, and the United States). [1] The company's main headquarters are in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. The company is a member of ACANA, [2] BACA, [3] EBAA [4] and NBAA [5] aviation industry bodies. In 2018 PrivateFly became part of Directional Aviation's OneSky portfolio of companies. [6]
The company uses technology to disrupt the traditional jet charter brokering model launching a website with online estimates and quotes, [7] and also offering apps for iPhone, iPad [8] and Android [9] devices.
It provides a white-label service [10] and partners with several companies including Lastminute.com, [11] Manchester Airport Group [12] and Addison Lee. [13]
PrivateFly was launched in 2008 by ex-RAF and NetJets pilot, Adam Twidell [14] and Carol Cork. [15]
The company expanded and had several veteran figures from the travel industry on the board including Martin George [16] and Damon de Laszlo. [17]
It received awards including the Smarta's Top 100 small businesses for 2010, [18] Best Business Award "Best Innovation", [19] Flight Global's Site of the Year Webbies award [20] and Everline Future 50. [21]
PrivateFly was listed 4th in The Sunday Times Fast Track SME Export Track 100 (Britain's SMEs with the fastest-growing international sales) [22] and 46th in The Sunday Times Fast Track Tech Track 100 (Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies). [23]
In 2011, it raised a £2 million investment through several investors [24] to help further develop their European expansion. [25]
In 2016, the company opened an office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida [26] It became the first UK Argus Certified Broker in 2016. [27]
PrivateFly runs an annual poll to find the Top 10 Airport Approaches. Previous winners include Sion Airport,[ citation needed ] Barra Airport, [28] Sint Maarten Airport, [29] Queenstown Airport, [30] Nice Airport [31] and Malta Airport. [32]
In September 2018 PrivateFly was acquired by the Directional Aviation OneSky group. [33]
In August 2020, PrivateFly launched a new Private Jet Card offering guaranteed aircraft availability and fixed hourly private jet prices for flights in the Europe and USA. [34]
In 2022, PrivateFly has reported a record-breaking increase in jet card sales for the first quarter of this year, experiencing a 258% surge in demand compared to the same timeframe last year. [35]