Private Aviation
Flown on the right aircraft for the route — not on whatever the broker quoted first.
Charter, fractional, scheduled commercial. We pick the airframe to the leg, vet the operator, choreograph both ground sides, and you see one invoice at the end.
What Curv actually does
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Aircraft selection by leg, not by call sheet
A 4-hour Med hop is a Citation problem; a Tel Aviv–LA non-stop is a Global 7500 problem. We size the airframe to the route, party, baggage, and pet count rather than upselling the largest cabin.
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Operator vetting through direct relationships
We work with a short list of ARGUS Platinum / IS-BAO Stage 3 operators we have flown ourselves. Where an unfamiliar tail number is the only available option, we say so.
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Empty-leg sourcing where it actually serves the trip
Empty legs save 30-60% — when the timing, route, and aircraft genuinely match. Not as a way to push a worse cabin onto a client to lower our cost.
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Ground choreography on both sides
Customs, FBO selection, baggage, fuel timing, vehicle pull-up, hotel arrival window. Often more decisive to the trip experience than the aircraft itself.
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Catering, dietary, and crew briefing
In-flight menus from the aircraft galley you actually have. Allergens and observance windows briefed to crew before the leg. Children, pets, and wheelchairs prepared for, not improvised around.
A four-leg Mediterranean week
Family of six, two dogs, peak August. Out of London Luton on a Falcon 7X to Olbia for the first night. Wheels-down to villa-arrival in 32 minutes — pre-cleared customs, two Range Rover Sports staged airside, dogs in the second vehicle with their own water and a familiar bed loaded that morning. Three nights on the Costa Smeralda. Repositioning leg to Palma at sunrise on day four — a Citation Latitude this time because the runway and the schedule make it the better airframe, and we tell you so. Mid-trip leg from Palma to Ibiza on a Phenom 300 because the client preferred a 25-minute hop to a 2-hour drive with a ferry. Final leg back to Farnborough on the Falcon, late evening, a real meal from a real galley, and a kennel pre-warmed at home before we wheels-down. Four legs, three operators, one invoice on Friday morning. The client never spoke to a broker, never compared quotes, never reconciled FBO charges.
Honest fit
This is for you if
- Multi-leg trips where ground choreography matters more than cabin size
- Families travelling with pets, allergens, or accessibility needs
- Clients who have been burned by broker-quoted prices that ballooned
- Anyone who has had a private flight ruined by a bad FBO experience
This is not for you if
- Single-passenger one-way charters under 90 minutes — commercial first
- Clients comfortable cold-quoting brokers and managing the operator themselves
- Trips where the budget logic genuinely favours first-class commercial
- Anyone seeking a JetBlue-priced Gulfstream — we will not pretend that exists
Frequent questions
Can you also book us in business or first class?
Yes — and we frequently do. Many trips start commercial, end private, or use commercial for legs where private is genuinely worse value. We hold preferred-partner relationships with the carriers that matter for our routes.
How much notice do you need?
For a quoted leg, two business days is comfortable; same-day is doable in most regions. For a multi-leg week with full ground, three to four weeks gives us the leverage to land a better aircraft for less.
Do you take a markup or a fee?
Mixed — depending on the operator relationship. For relationship-based bookings the price you see is the operator price plus a disclosed Curv design fee. Fully transparent on the invoice.
What about jet cards and fractional?
We hold no card stock. If a card is genuinely the right tool for your year (frequency, routes, peak-day risk) we will say so and help you onto NetJets or VistaJet. Often it is not, and we save clients the upfront commitment.
A flight, a hotel, a week,
or a year of trips.
Send us a single flight or a full multi-stop itinerary — both belong here. A human advisor responds within four hours during business hours, eight overnight. No bots in the response loop.