How the club works.
Six things to understand before you join. We'll walk through the mechanic, the math, and the trade-offs — honestly.
A private jet rarely flies a round trip with the same passengers.
Most charters are one-way. After dropping off the customer, the aircraft has to reposition — either to its home base, to another customer, or to maintenance. That return flight has no paying passenger on it. Crew, fuel, and time are already paid for. The seat is empty.
Roughly 30–40% of all private aviation flying is repositioning. MiaJets generates about 50 of these empty legs per month. Today most of them fly empty. Through the club, members claim them.
Pick a tier. Commit to a year. $239 minimum.
Citation tier ($239/year) gives you access to our light and midsize Citation fleet. Legacy tier ($699/year) adds the Embraer Legacy 500 — our super-mid with 9-passenger capacity and 3,125nm range. Legacy members see all Citation flights too.
Why the annual commitment
The club has a fixed inventory ceiling each month. To keep matching ratios honest, we cap membership against fleet capacity. Annual commitments protect the membership economics — and us from members who churn after one bad week of weather.
Empty legs are released to members first.
When a MiaJets dispatcher confirms an upcoming repositioning leg, it goes into the platform within minutes. Members get a push notification, an email, or both — you choose. Notifications are randomized within tiers in 60-second waves so no member, broker, or bot can systematically be first.
Why randomization
In a pure first-come-first-served system, the same fast members win every time. Our randomized rolling notifications mean every member's chance on any given leg is statistically equal — the system rewards luck and presence over speed-of-thumb.
First member to claim wins the aircraft.
Tap claim. Confirm payment. The aircraft is yours — the entire plane, not just a seat. Bring up to the aircraft's seat capacity at no additional charge. You'll pay the federal excise tax (7.5% of equivalent retail value) and any segment fees. Most claims clear at $40–$400 in taxes and fees, depending on the route.
What you actually pay at claim
Federal excise tax + segment fees + any applicable international fees (for Bahamas-bound legs). Typically $50–$300 for a domestic flight. There are no service fees, no booking fees, and no markups from the club. The flight itself costs nothing.
Can't fly? Release the leg. Get half the auction.
Up to 24 hours before departure, you can release any claimed leg back to the pool. The flight goes into a Dutch auction visible to other members. As the clock counts down to flight time, the price drops on a pre-set schedule — the first member to claim at the current price wins.
You receive 50% of whatever price the auction clears at. Half goes to the club to fund operations and keep membership pricing low. We reconcile the auction in 7 days and pay you via ACH.
The aspirational claim is risk-free
Because of the auction split, it's economically rational to claim flights you're only 60–70% sure you can fly. If you can fly, you fly nearly free. If you can't, the auction will likely clear above your tax cost, and you net a profit on the release. Most members who release at least one flight per year recover more than their full membership fee.
Renew, upgrade, or walk away.
At the end of your 12 months, you can renew at the same tier, upgrade to Legacy, or simply not renew. There's no auto-charge surprise — we'll email you 30 days before renewal with your year's flying summary, your auction earnings, and a clear total of what the club delivered for you. Then it's your call.
Walk through a real claim.
A retail charter on a Citation Latitude from Teterboro to Naples runs around $22,400. That same flight, claimed as an empty leg, costs you $182 in taxes and fees.
That's not a 50% discount. It's a 99% discount. The math feels broken because it is — the plane was already going to Naples that day. We're just letting you on it.
One Citation Latitude empty leg pays for years of Legacy tier membership. One released-and-auctioned leg can recover your annual membership cost on its own.
This is the entire pitch. There isn't a hidden fee waiting on the other side.
How we keep the club honest.
A few mechanics that prevent the same problems other empty-leg products run into.
No commercial flipping
Memberships are individual. Identity is verified at signup and at the FBO. You can bring guests, gift the flight to family, share the cost privately — but you can't list a claimed leg on a third-party platform or charge non-network buyers. Brokers caught reselling have memberships terminated and forfeit any pending auction earnings.
One membership per household
We require unique payment methods, addresses, and identity verification per membership. Multiple memberships at the same household get flagged and are not eligible for the same flight notifications. Family members can be added as authorized guests on a single membership at no charge.
Random notification waves
When a leg is released to the membership, the tier is split into randomized 10-segment waves with 60-second intervals. Wave order changes per flight. No member is ever systematically first. Independent monthly audits verify the randomization.
Release floor protection
If you release a leg, the auction starts at 80% of equivalent retail and drops on a schedule. Auctions can't clear below your original cost basis — you'll always at least break even on a release. Members with chronic high release rates without flying get gradually deprioritized in notifications.
Ready to join?
Two tiers. Twelve months. About a thousand empty seats heading somewhere — the question is whether you want one of them.
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