{"id":263263,"date":"2019-03-11T05:12:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263263"},"modified":"2019-03-11T05:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T05:12:52","slug":"how-the-super-rich-are-getting-scammed-in-the-opaque-private-jet-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-the-super-rich-are-getting-scammed-in-the-opaque-private-jet-market\/","title":{"rendered":"How the super-rich are getting scammed in the opaque private jet market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five grand for mystery sushi. Seven for plastic cups. And more fuel than the plane could possibly hold.<\/p>\n<p>Such are the deceptions stinging the billionaires and mere millionaires of today\u2019s private jet-set class. In an era of ultra-wealth, reports of shady billing related to private-jet travel are on the rise. <\/p>\n<p>It says as much about this era of hyper-wealth as about modern-day fraudsters. So much money is sloshing around the world that, inevitably, crafty operators are seeking a slice, trying to help themselves to what they figure is a mere rounding error to a billionaire. About a third of private-jet owners are worth more than $500 million, according to a 2018 report by VistaJet and Wealth-X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five grand for mystery sushi. Seven for plastic cups. And more fuel than the plane could possibly hold. Such are the deceptions stinging the billionaires and mere millionaires of today\u2019s private jet-set class. In an era of ultra-wealth, reports of shady billing related to private-jet travel are on the rise. It says as much about this era of hyper-wealth as about modern-day fraudsters. So much money is sloshing around the world that, inevitably, crafty operators are seeking a slice, trying to help themselves to what they figure is a mere rounding error to a billionaire. About a third of private-jet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}