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MOVE OVER, mass transportation. Meet luxury modes of travel. For instance, Schubach Aviation (schubachaviation.com) is an ondemand air-charter service based at Palomar Airport in Carlsbad. The company rents privately owned aircraft for business and personal use. The jets have leather seating for four to nine passengers, minioffices and refreshment galleys. A roundtrip flight from San Diego to Mammoth on a six-passenger King Air jet is $3,000.
“You’re buying time with us,” says Schu - bach Aviation general manager Roy Irwin. “Travelers today deal with delays and so forth. We can take off from here and do multiple destinations and be back in the evening on the same day.”
Some commercial airlines are raising luxury standards. Singapore Airlines (singaporeair.com) flies the A380, which offers 12 personal suites —— some with double beds. Suite amenities include designer pajamas and stand-alone bed (with turndown service), toiletries, a bathroom, a 23-inch wide-screen LCD TV, 35-inch-wide chair and extra stowaway space. A suite runs upward of $10,700 per person, round trip.
The leisure traveler afraid to fly might prefer a voyage by limo. Tractor-trailer-style limo, perhaps? Riverside County is home base to The Midnight Rider (themidnightrider.com), a 70-foot, 40-passenger luxury land cruiser. This giant partymobile features three separate lounges, a bar area, restroom, large-screen television and a staff of five (including a hostess and bartenders).
“We’ll go anywhere in the United States,” says executive vice president Pamela Bartholomew. For $450 to $675 an hour, that is.
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