Privé Jets

10/13/2026

Honored to be named Leading Private Jet Charter Company 2026 by the World Travel Awards, under 2 categories. Thank you to everyone who voted for us. Your support inspires us to continue delivering the premium service and seamless private travel experiences our clients deserve.

With Privé Jets and FlyExclusive winning in separate categories, alongside other jet charter providers being nominated.

08/17/2026

🤫 August looks empty on every corporate calendar — it's actually the busiest private jet month in six years.

📊 Global business jet activity hit 327,745 flights last August — the highest total in six years, up 30% from 2019.

📍 Italy climbed 11%, France 10%, Switzerland 13% — the same week, the exact geography behind the rest of this month's stories.

🏙️ Corporate hotel bookings across Europe fall 57% in August versus June — that's the calendar everyone mistakes for quiet.

🔀 Western Europe's commercial seat capacity actually grows 4.5% this August — just aimed at leisure routes, not business ones.

🗓️ Peak dates still book 4–5 weeks out, congested airports 6–8 — the record year runs on lead time, not luck.

None of this shows up in an empty inbox. It shows up already seated — the aircraft ready, in the exact countries the rest of this month keeps circling back to.

📌 Save this — the quiet month isn't quiet for everyone.

07/29/2026

🗝️ The Riviera has three back doors. The map only shows the front one.

🛩️ Cannes-Mandelieu logged 61,638 non-commercial movements in 2024 — versus just 8,217 commercial. France's second airport reserved exclusively for business aviation, right after Le Bourget.

⛰️ The hills around Cannes-Mandelieu cap aircraft at 35,000kg MTOW. It's the terrain, not a rulebook, deciding who lands there.

🌊 La Môle, the closest strip to Saint-Tropez, only clears international customs from July 1 to October 15. Miss that window and every non-Schengen arrival gets rerouted.

🚤 La Môle runs at 85-90% capacity during peak season, on a runway with no lights — daylight-only, 24-hour notice required.

🧭 Toulon-Hyères shares its runway with a naval base and shuts out business aviation from 19:00 to 07:00 — but it's the one arrival point open all year, no seasonal customs cutoff.

Three airfields, three sets of rules, one region. Knowing which one is open — and when — is the difference between landing near Saint-Tropez and landing somewhere else entirely. That's what a private jet actually buys: the option to choose correctly.

Save this for your clients — or the person who plans your travel.

07/21/2026

🗝️ WHERE THE WAITING LIST DOESN'T MOVE FOR MONEY

📍 One villa in the Peloponese runs an 18-guest, 18-staff ratio — one dedicated team member for every guest, private chef included.

💶 Third-party luxury travel outlets report nightly rates in the $45,000–$50,000 range at peak season for this property — figures the estate itself has never confirmed.

🚁 There's no commercial route in. Guests transfer by private helicopter from Athens, a 25-35 minute flight, straight to the property's own helipad.

📅 Villas at this level in Greece are known to book out 9-12 months ahead in peak season — the calendar fills long before the season starts.

✈️ The helicopter gets you to the gate. The jet is what gets you to the helicopter — the quiet first leg that makes the rest of the trip possible.

Save this for the travel planner who books the impossible.

07/15/2026

🗝️ The Riviera doesn't run on a waitlist. It runs on a calendar set months ago.

📍 Nice (LFMN) is a Level 3 slot-coordinated airport — every movement, including private aviation, needs a pre-assigned slot from the official French coordinator.

🗓️ Normal season, a Nice slot takes 2–4 weeks to secure. During the Cannes Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix window, that becomes 3 to 6 months of planning to lock a workable time.

⏱️ Cannes-Mandelieu requires Prior Permission and a dedicated slot for the entire high season, mid-May to mid-September — with a tolerance of only 20 minutes. Miss it, and the request resets to the back of the line.

🌙 Nice runs 24 hours. Cannes-Mandelieu doesn't — it closes 30 minutes after sunset, last operation 22:30, no exceptions. That's why flexible itineraries lean toward Nice.

🅿️ Even once the schedule is set, Nice is known as the hardest airport on the Riviera to secure aircraft parking during peak season.

None of this is about the aircraft. It's about the calendar it flies on — the reservation made long before the trip is ever mentioned out loud.

💾 Save this for your next client brief — the timing is the part no one tells you until it's too late.

07/12/2026

🗝️ The Med yacht calendar the elite plans around — and it's not the September shows.

📍 July 3–5, Porto Cervo: the Coppa Europa Smeralda 888 opens the season — 23rd edition, 10 boats, one club-only class built for this stretch of water.

⚓ July 29–Aug 1, same marina: the YCCS Members Championship runs the J/70 program right into peak August — this is the week arrivals compress.

🛥️ Porto Cervo Marina holds 700 berths total, only 100 built for megayachts up to 160m — and a booking is never guaranteed without confirmation.

🇪🇸 Ibiza Magna caps out at 85 superyacht slips, max length 60m — anything bigger anchors outside the harbor, no exceptions.

🌊 Formentera's S'Espalmador runs on 400 regulated moorings — book 2 to 20 days out, max 2 nights a week per boat, or you don't get a spot.

None of this is public knowledge until the marina is full. The advantage is knowing the window before it closes — and having the lift ready the moment it opens.

📌 Save this — your clients will ask about it in August.

07/03/2026

🗝️ The Mediterranean's most wanted addresses stopped taking new names in the spring.

By July, the best beach clubs of Pampelonne and St-Tropez aren't a card-on-arrival kind of place. Access is arranged long before the season starts — and here's what "arranged" actually means:

📅 Peak-summer tables and loungers sell out weeks to roughly two months ahead — concierges quietly tell you to lock April or May.
💶 A VIP "Big Bed" at Blue Marlin Ibiza runs a €100 hire fee plus a €500 minimum spend — the full €600 wired in advance, within 24 hours, or the reservation is gone.
🍽️ Club 55 in Pampelonne serves up to 900 covers on a summer day and a table in July or August is still famously hard to land.
🤫 Bagatelle St-Tropez has read "booked through September" by mid-July — the kind of season where money isn't the question, the list is.

🛩️ When the destination has closed its book, one leg of the trip still answers to you: the flight. It's the single part of the day you can still schedule on your terms — the connector that gets you there in time to matter.

📌 Save this for the client whose summer is already spoken for.

06/21/2026

✈️ Eight hours across the Atlantic is either a cost or an asset. The cabin decides which. 🌊

This is what the transatlantic summer looks like from the inside — flat-surface configuration, full privacy, controlled light. You arrive in condition, not recovery. 🗺️

📍 Plan your July or August crossing → Link in bio. ☀️

06/14/2026

📖 Three notes on moving through Europe in June. ☀️

✈️ Not on where to go — on how it feels to arrive already in the right state of mind. 🌍

🗺️ Field Guide Series · Vol. 01

06/07/2026

✈️ Three coastlines, three approaches, three arrivals that change what the summer feels like. 🌊

📍 The Côte d'Azur through Cannes. Amalfi from Salerno. Hvar by water taxi from Split.

🗺️ Swipe to see where June opens. 🏝️