Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JetSmarter has only been around for a few years, but the company — which bills itself as an Uber for private jets — has enjoyed ...

Last spring, Leonardo Galvez got an offer from JetSmarter that seemed too good to pass up. The private-jet start-up was offering Galvez its top-of-the-line "sophisticated membership," which included ...

JetSmarter, on track to record $300 million in sales this year, is hoping to exponentially charge its growth as it announces a new pay-as-you-go option to buy seats on its scheduled private jet ...

On the surface, it’s hard to believe that people who were paying around $10,000 per year to fly free on private jets that normally cost up to $18,000 per hour - sometimes having the entire aircraft to ...

JetSmarter, hailed as the Uber for private jets, seems to have engaged in some questionable practices in an attempt to tout its business. Specifically, the company appears to have gone to extreme ...

If traveling first class is just a teensy bit too plebeian for you, JetSmarter has you covered. The company lets you book a private jet from your smartphone, and announced today it is expanding into ...

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is now at the center of growing concerns over security and passenger screening at JetSmarter. Following a CNBC investigation into the company last month, ...

JetSmarter’s growth plan is hitting cruising altitude, powered by a large round of new funding from high-profile investors. On Monday, the Fort Lauderdale-based private jet marketplace announced that ...

Fort Lauderdale-based private jet service JetSmarter is being acquired by Dubai-based Vista Global, the companies announced Wednesday. A purchase price was not disclosed. JetSmarter, founded in 2012 ...

Sergey Petrossov is the 28-year-old CEO of JetSmarter, a private jet transportation marketplace that launched in 2013, is pictured in his Fort Lauderdale office. Charles Trainor Jr.

The startup that wants to make flying in a private jet feel affordable is partnering with one of the industry's largest private jet-charter companies. JetSmarter, often called the Uber of private ...