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Club to Fly Biggin
Club Airways, the members-only scheduled corporate jet service, started a two-week trial service from London-Biggin Hill Airport to Nice on July 5. The two-flights-per-day, five-days-a-week service is operated by Club's UK partner Bookajet, using eight-seat Hawker 800s.
The plan is that Club's members, who pay $1,800 annually plus around 15% above Business Class air fares per seat, will be able to connect at Nice with Club flights bound for Pisa in Italy. There are no scheduled airline services between the two Mediterranean cities.
Although it operates to a regular timetable, the Club operation at Biggin is a private members' service, and thus does not fall foul of the local Bromley Council's ban on scheduled airline operations at the famous former Battle of Britain RAF station in Kent. Club also points out that its operation is in any case non-scheduled because it may cancel flights if there are insufficient passengers.
Biggin Hill Airport chairman Andrew Walters commented, "Club Airways is an innovative and exclusive business aviation concept. It makes sense to allow business aviation customers to share the costs of the flight rather than chartering the whole plane for themselves. These operations fit exactly into the types of flights that already use the airport."
Club Airways offers members daily flights from several European capitals, in the comfort and privacy afforded by business jets.
Bookajet is an executive jet charter operator based at Southampton, on England's south coast, and is Club's largest operating partner.
—Mike Vines
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