“A Thousand Reasons to Fly Private”

Luxury Air Jets is happy to inform everybody about our new series “A thousand reasons to fly private”. The new series on private aviation was called forth by the many recent events in the commercial aviation that make it harder and harder to use and less and less rewarding. The recent delays and cancellations of nearly 3,100 American Airlines (AA) flights, reminded at least 250,000 passengers how fragile it can be to depend on commercial airlines. The series will strive to show how time, safety, and cost are all interconnected and how using private jet charter or private jet rental can actually be more economically sensible for more individuals. “What Else did American Airlines Delay?” is our first article in this series and is available online. During this series, we will also have special offers to show our clients how rewarding private aviation can be.

Luxury Air Jets 2007 Holiday Party at Philippe

The private jet charter business can be very demanding. Luxury Air Jets’ dedicated private jet rental specialists work hard to make sure all private jet charter flights taken care of from “wheels up” to “wheels down”. So when they party, the do it with style. This year, Luxury Air Jets had its holiday party on Friday, December 21st, 2007 at the well-know Philippe on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The pictures talk for themselves…

“Age of Love”
Ramin Hachemian, the luckiest man in the party, with Donna Kozak on the left and Elmira Naymark on the right. Which one of the two Private Aviation Specialists will he choose? (That’s a shame…. he’s already spoken for…)


“The A Team”
Elmira Naymark and Leon Apodaca fly the rich and famous.







“Mirror, mirror on the wall…”
Vera (wonder woman) Gjelaj and Daniella (Marketing Wiz) Todd.







“Hey, it’s not what it looks like…”
Private Aviation Specialists Andrew Rowe and Joe Dorr; sleepless in New York City.






"Double (cyber) Jeopardy"
Gabriel Shaoolian of Blue Fountain Media and girl (sitting) with Askar Khamdamov and wife Tatyana, Blue Fountain Media programmer. Don’t they look human?





“Meeting of the minds”
Gadi Capela of Client Relations and Jack Kadymir of Accounting take a moment to talk about the Philosophy of Theology.






“Bamm! kick it up a notch!”
Joe (hungry) Dorr








“A royal flush”
Igor Kotlyar, Luxury Air Jets’ CEO with wife Elena (they must have blonde kinds).





“It's a bird...it's a plane...it's Superman?”
Rodney Kadymir, Luxury Air Jets’ Managing Director opening a present from his “Secret Santa”.








“Private Aviation is a beautiful business…”

Luxury Air Jets at the Millionaire Fair

The way between New York and Moscow just got shorter - Luxury Air Jets at the Millionaire Fair.

‘Luxury’ was the name of the game in Moscow’s Millionaire Fair last week. Where else can you stop and shop for a Swarovsky crystal-covered Mercedes, a Gulfstream G550 airplane with a Rolls-Royce engine, an island, and a diamond-covered cell phone on the side - all under the same roof? “After an ‘arduous’ shopping day like this, who wouldn’t want a private jet to take them home?” says Igor Kotlyar - Luxury Air Jets’ CEO. However, this was not the only reason the team of Luxury Air Jets felt right at home. Igor along with Rodney Kadymir – the founders of the company, left Russia as children when it was still very much Communist. Last week they came back ‘to Russia with love’ to participate among 200 other prestigious companies in what is considered the crown jewel of all luxury exhibitions, in the city that Forbes magazine recently recorded as having more millionaires than any other city in the world.

According to a recent research conducted by Merrill Lynch there are 88,000 millionaires living in Russia today – a lot of them are recent millionaires. This is an impressive number; and what is more impressive is when talking number of billionaires, Russia is ranked second after the US. Everybody was at The Crocus Expo: from Bentley, Cartier, and Remy Martin, to Mercedes, Rolex, and Mont Blanc. The event that was covered by all major media networks and which was perfectly timed at the start of the holiday and shopping season, attracted 45,000 visitors – many of them are so-called “new Russians” who could easily afford the luxury items. They made the show very successful for the exhibitors, Luxury Air Jets included. In fact, it was so successful that some visitors were reported to have a “luxury shock”. “This is a perfect market for us”, says Rodney, “It prompt us to open our new office here on Beskudnikovskiy Boulevard.”
See you next year in Shanghai!

When Glamour Met Charity

Luxury Air Jets Sponsors Benefit for "The Disabled and Hospitalized Veterans" and September 11 Firefighters. The annual cocktail reception to benefit The International Trade, Cultural, and Charity was dedicated this year to the disabled and hospitalized veterans, and to September 11 firefighters. It took place on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at Manhattan Motor Cars in New York City. Cruising between Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Spyker, guests enjoyed gourmet hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, fine art, a silent auction, and an international fashion show by avant-garde designer Grace Edwards. Victoria Secret Model and Cover Girl Cynthia Kirchner opened and closed both shows strutting down the catwalk. “We thought it would be nice to show the beautiful and peaceful side of aircraft to all the veterans of war.”, says Rodney Kadymir - Luxury Air Jets’ Managing Director.

Many international diplomats, members of the press, presidents, CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies, celebrities and royalties attended to show their support. A partial list included: Baroness Longendors, Countess Marion Burchard, Mr. and Mrs. Yuriy Sergeyev - Ukraine Ambassador to the UN, Mr. Remegio M. Maradon - Brazil Ambassador to the UN, Francois Knaff - Consul General of Luxembourg & Trade Commissioner, Mr. Andreas Panayiotou - Consul General of Cyprus, Mr. Rodger Young - United States Liaison Officer to the UN, Fuguing Yang - UN Bureau Chief, Nick Gregory of FOX 5 NEWS, Filip Prochazka of NBC, MR. Robert Lester - President and CEO of Carfolia international, and Roxanna Zarnegar - CHRISTIE’S Director of Logistics. The event was curetted by Ms. Gloria Consolacion T. Cressler who has been an enthusiastic philanthropist devoting over ten years of event planning work supporting numerous charities

Luxury Air Jets Goes Global

Luxury Air Jets was invited to participate in the ‘Millionaire Fair’ that will take place this year, for the third time in Moscow, from November 22-25, 2007, at Crocus Expo. The Millionaire Fair is the largest exhibition of luxury goods and services in the world. The Russian market is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In a comprehensive project, Luxury Air Jets translated its entire website and literature to Russian in order to accommodate this exclusive audience. “There is a whole new generation of Russians who became extremely wealthy and are connoisseurs of luxury living and extravagant goods and services.” says Rodney Kadymir, Luxury Air Jets’ Managing Director. Please visit our new website at http://www.luxuryairjets.ru/

Luxury Air Jets at the NBTA Boston

Luxury Air Jets exhibited in the annual National Business Travel Association (NBTA) which took place in the Boston’s famed Convention & Exhibition Center two weeks ago. This is the world’s largest gathering of international business travel buyers. This was the largest and most successful in the 39-year history of the event with more than 6,200 attendees, including 1,400 travel managers, nearly 100 reporters, and more than 435 exhibitors. The keynote speaker at this year was General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.) (in the picture). Mr. Powell shared his experience as a Former Secretary of State alluding to the travel industry, especially to private aviation. General Powell said he doesn’t normally miss anything in his past. He does, however, really miss having his own private jet!

Luxury Air Jets Meets and Greets at Manhattans Luxurious Rainbow Room

Luxury Air Jets joined NYCBTA on October 12th at the luxurious Rainbow Room, located on top of NYC Rockefeller Plaza, to meet with some of the most prominent folks in the business travel industry. The discussions covered a full array of business and corporate travel issues such as homeland security, international trade, and technology. As expected, all the speakers touched upon the issue of private jet charter. Peter Greeenberg (in the picture) travel editor for NBC's The Today Show, agreed in his speech that in many cases there is an economic justification for using private jets, especially if flying multiple executives together. The taxi service, he said, is a good idea. David Neeleman - founder and Chairman of JetBlue Airways, shared his thoughts and opinions around the rules and regulations governing the nation's air transportation industry. Mr. Neeleman stressed the fact that a lot of the over crowding of the runways in New York City is caused by private jets. He did not offer a solution but just stated the fact that this industry is growing immensely.

NY Assemblyman Michael Gianaris who was part of the Airline Passengers Bill of Rights, which was passed in August of this year, spoke about the groundbreaking legislation and how New York is dealing with the intolerable delays at its airports, suggesting that it is not surprising that more and more people look for private aviation as a solution. C. Stewart Verdery Jr. who served as the first assistant secretary for policy and planning at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), discussed legislation affecting the business traveler and his current work of delivering public policy results in business travel. Mr. Verdery emphasized the urgency of arriving on time when traveling on business and how private aviation is better at it. Finally, Bill DeCota - Port Authority Director of Airports discussed his responsibility for Kennedy, Newark and LaGuardia airports and the $15 billion public-private redevelopment programs and initiatives presently underway at these airports. Mr. DeCota said that one of the reasons people pursue private aviation is because today private jets receive equal landing opportunities on runways. This is good news to our industry says Rodney Kadymir, Luxury Air Jets Managing Director.