A row of cards spread across a table at close range

Context

Private jets

A cabin is the smallest venue there is. Eight seats, a table between four of them, an aisle you cannot stand in, and a group who have agreed to spend two hours together. A difficult room, and an unusually good one.

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How pricing works

Why it works at all

The constraint is the point

Close-up already happens at arm's length on a table, which is exactly what a cabin gives you and refuses every other kind of performer. Nothing needs standing room, a back row, or a socket.

The other half is that nobody is going anywhere. On the ground a guest can drift away mid-effect. At thirty eight thousand feet the attention is total, and material that would be good in a room is remarkable in a cabin.

Two ways it gets booked

In the air, or before it

In the cabin
A leg of an hour or more, worked from the aisle and the facing seats. He is a passenger on your manifest, so this is a booking your flight department has to be told about early rather than late.
At the FBO
The terminal lounge before departure, which is where the delay lives and where the format costs nothing to arrange. Popular for corporate group departures and for the outbound leg of an incentive trip.

A guest reacting to close-up card magic at close range — Cabin work is close work by definition. Everything used fits in hand luggage and nothing needs power.

Practicalities

What your flight department needs to know

He travels as a passenger with hand luggage and no restricted items. No liquids beyond the normal allowance, nothing sharp, nothing that reads oddly on a screen, and nothing that needs stowing separately.

Manifest details, passport and any operator-required paperwork come back within the day. On a corporate manifest an NDA is routine and welcome.

What you are booking

Duration: Forty minutes to two hours, depending on the leg
Guests: Four to fourteen
Space required: None. Cabin table, facing seats, or an FBO lounge
Equipment: Hand luggage. No power, no restricted items, nothing to stow
Paperwork: Manifest details and passport within the day. NDA on request
Travel: Return travel and accommodation are quoted separately from the fee

Questions worth asking before you book

Is this actually a real booking or a novelty?

A real booking, and a small one. It comes up most often inside a larger corporate trip: the outbound leg of an incentive, a board flying to a results meeting, a group heading to a race weekend. As a standalone it rarely justifies the fee.

Does he need a seat?

Yes, a normal passenger seat on the manifest. On a full cabin that is the constraint worth checking before anything else.

What about the return leg?

Usually he flies home commercially, which keeps the cost down. If the schedule makes that impossible it goes into the travel line of the quote openly rather than as a surcharge.