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https://www.valaisprive.co.uk/
32 seat aircraft, £10k membership fee buys 1/320 share in company, plus £1,200 PA management fee, plus price of tickets bought upfront min 20 flights. Think I’ll pass!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@valais2, we've come to think of pilots as just bus drivers. Thank you for posting that to remind us great unwashed that driving in two dimensions kills thousands of people every year but pilots carry us in three dimensions, often with very limited visibility and still keep us safe. Ryanair et all have a lot to answer for to the loss of respect to the profession 
Yet we still revere doctors who in general when they make a mistake will only harm one. A pilot's mistake can kill hundreds.
I'm enormously grateful to both professions, I just wish they were treated with the same respect by their industries.
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Interesting idea but I predict it will fail. There's a clue on the picture of the plane on the home page - they have blanked out the plane's registration (that black oval) and I suspect it means they don't own it yet.
Bit of sleuthing and it is this 16 year old Dornier 328: https://www.duncanaviation.aero/aircraft-sales/N452FJ
What's the betting the purchase price s approx 32 x £10k? or £3.2m to put it another way. Sounds about right.
The £1200 pa management fee no doubt covers head office costs (wages mainly) and the unspecified ticket cost covers running costs of the plane itself.
Getting 32 people to part with £10k for a service that only goes to/from one destination isn't going to be easy.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Masque wrote: |
@valais2, we've come to think of pilots as just bus drivers. Thank you for posting that to remind us great unwashed that driving in two dimensions kills thousands of people every year but pilots carry us in three dimensions, often with very limited visibility and still keep us safe. Ryanair et all have a lot to answer for to the loss of respect to the profession
Yet we still revere doctors who in general when they make a mistake will only harm one. A pilot's mistake can kill hundreds.
I'm enormously grateful to both professions, I just wish they were treated with the same respect by their industries. |
Lol.
A big airplane flies itself ~98% of the time.
A pilot just steps on the gas at takeoff and brakes it on landing.
If it gets a bit cloudy, they just press the autoland button.
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| Pruman wrote: |
Interesting idea but I predict it will fail. There's a clue on the picture of the plane on the home page - they have blanked out the plane's registration (that black oval) and I suspect it means they don't own it yet.
Bit of sleuthing and it is this 16 year old Dornier 328: https://www.duncanaviation.aero/aircraft-sales/N452FJ
What's the betting the purchase price s approx 32 x £10k? or £3.2m to put it another way. Sounds about right.
The £1200 pa management fee no doubt covers head office costs (wages mainly) and the unspecified ticket cost covers running costs of the plane itself.
Getting 32 people to part with £10k for a service that only goes to/from one destination isn't going to be easy. |
It's a pretty good deal if you're a hardcore skier who weekends all season in Western Switzerland, like Verbier.
A private jet from Sion to London, one-way, is currently around US$3-8k, depending on size of plane and time of week or day.
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@Pruman, isn't 32 x 10k Only 320k, rather than 3.2m?
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@toyah807, there are 320 shares. 10k buys 1/320
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| toyah807 wrote: |
| @Pruman, isn't 32 x 10k Only 320k, rather than 3.2m? |
Yes, well spotted, my '0' key is right where I spilt my tea. The issue is the same - finding 320 avid skiers with £10k +++ to burn, who all live/work near LCY and who want to ski in the Sion area all the time, isn't going to be too easy. It's not going to fly is it?
And then factor in the occasional diversion due to Sion being a Cat C airport surrounded by mountains, and you may as well fly scheduled to Geneva and jump on the train to Martigny.
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A very risky proposition on its own (buys you shares of a company with a one plane operation then extra unquantified ticket costs), let alone the track record of the proposers.
But if you're a regular visitor to ski Switzerland then maybe you're up for dropping £10k from which you may get no return.
Maybe a pitch to those time poor bankers who can take the company limo to the city airport. Surely will be a must have corporate membership.
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