Five-star flights

Mumbai: Star hotels now have special jets for highflyers.
The Tata-owned TajAir flies Falcon 2000s to 114 destinations in India like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kolkata, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram.
The aircraft was originally designed to seat 16 passengers, but now has been reconfigured to seat eight.
You can fly to international destinations within a radius of five-and-half flying hours.
Meanwhile, Oberoi Aviation flies a jet (Hawker 125-700B) and a turboprop (King Air C-90A) to Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. You could also fly their aircraft to international destinations with a week’s prior notice.
TajAir offers you a jet on as short as a four-hour notice.
Bookings for the Oberoi Group-owned aircraft, on the other hand, are on first-come, first-served basis.
The charges for the Oberoi Group-owned jet and turboprops are $3,700 per hour and $1,250 per hour respectively, but it does not include waiting, overnight and crew lodging charges. As for TajAir, they’d rather you call them up.
19/12/06 Geetanjali Shukla/Business Standard

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