How to Get the Private Jet Experience for a Bargain Price
This newbie should have listened. I arrived at noon for my 1:20 p.m. flight from tiny Scottsdale Airport to Las Vegas in early June. Employees were in the middle of a training session. There was no one in the gate area but a pilot. And there were no bars or restaurants to pass the time because the air carrier operates out of an office park. (The departure lounge serves only tea and coffee.)
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