Penny-pinching, expense account style

[beetiger]

I've always thought that the Zipcar was a nifty concept. You can get a car occasionally, when you need it, without dealing with the rest of the hassles of ownership.

So I guess that it makes a lot of sense, if you are the kind of person who enjoys flying zir own private plane, but don't want to deal with the trouble and expense of owning your own Cessna, that you might be interested in Our Plane.

Of course, the Zipcar folks call themselves a community, while Our Plane features "fractional ownership".

These folks randomly had flyers on the display table at my branch bank. Me, I just deposit a weekly paycheck there, but perhaps they've got more substantially-asseted clients. From the text of the flyer:

SAVE MONEY! ...now you can own a brand new aircraft and still have money leftover for a cottage, your children's education, or vacations ---never sacrifice again just because you want to own an airplane!

For now, though, I think I'm sticking with Jet Blue.

Comments

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

this puts my agonizing - for days - over whether to spend $500 or $700 for furniture into a bit of perspective.

course, those plane-sharing bastards are probably now my neighbors...

[orb2069.livejournal.com]

I wonder - When a 'fractional owner' uses the thing's wingtip to plow a field, does he crash the whole plane, or just his part?

Thanks for the JetBlue link - Pity they don't bother serving the midwest. [Sigh]

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

They started out as a New York-Florida regional carrier, and are expanding from there. I wouldn't be surprised if they added NY-> Chicago eventually, at least.

Plane Timeshares

[fenton.livejournal.com]

ysabel is a private pilot, albeit a lapsed one. But we regularly get Plane and Pilot, among other magazines, and I can state that an low-end airplane is not all that expensive to buy (only somewhat more than a really nice car, and you get better rates). However, it's insanely expensive to *keep* or *operate*, which is much of what a plane-share is about; splitting hangar costs, and the like. As for wingplants... that's what insurance is for.