PrivateJetSky / Cost Index
A free, sourced record of what private aviation costs.
The PrivateJetSky Index is published quarterly. Each edition compares the rate cards that sellers publish, records the jet card category averages and what they did over the quarter, and lists every source with the date it was read. Nothing in it sits behind a subscription and nothing in it is for sale.
It exists because of a gap that is easy to describe and hard to defend: search for what a private jet costs and every answer on the first page is written by a company that sells flights, the numbers disagree by factors, and the one independent database in the category costs several hundred dollars a year. A buyer deserves at least one page that shows its working.
What each edition contains
- The published rate cards, side by side. What five named sellers say the same aircraft class costs per hour, with each one’s own category label, unaveraged.
- The spread, measured. Lowest and highest published figure per class, and the ratio between them.
- Jet card category averages, with the change from the previous quarter.
- The inputs underneath: retail jet fuel and business aviation flight activity.
- Every source, with a read date, and a citation block for anyone quoting the edition.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, or a source has changed since we read it, write to hello@plainforge.com. Corrections are published in the next edition with a note saying what changed. An index that cannot be corrected in public is a brochure.