Instead of forcing every owner into one airframe, Matrix AirShare begins with your mission: second homes, regional business routes, and destinations poorly served by airlines. From there, we select the best fit — a Piper Malibu Matrix, a Cessna 206 Stationair, a Beechcraft Bonanza G36, or something else entirely. All of our aircraft are modern, state of the art airframes, equipped with top of the line IFR avionics and luxury accomodations.
Representative comparison using publicly available examples. Actual quotes for third-party providers vary by aircraft, term, and usage profile.
| Item | Matrix AirShare Two-aircraft Northeast piston program |
PlaneSense PC-12 1/16 share program (example) |
NetJets Phenom 300 Share program (example) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Approx. hours per year | 60 hours per owner | 50 hours per 1/16 share | 60 hours per share |
| Capital / buy-in | $175,000 Includes $25k maintenance reserve |
~$350,000–$400,000 | ~$600,000 |
| Monthly fixed / management | $2,800 / month Management, hangar, insurance, training & program reserves |
~$6,450 / month | ~$10,500 / month |
| Hourly “wet” rate | $600 / occupied hour | ~$1,200 / occupied hour | ~$4,100+ / occupied hour |
| Example annual spend (60 hours) | ≈ $70,000 / year 60 hrs × $600 + 12 × $2,800 |
≈ $149,000 / year 60 hrs × $1,200 + 12 × $6,450 |
≈ $374,000 / year 60 hrs × $4,100 + 12 × $10,500 |
| Effective all-in cost per hour | ≈ $1,160 / hr Includes management, hangar, insurance, reserves |
≈ $2,450+ / hr Excludes initial buy-in |
≈ $6,200+ / hr Excludes initial buy-in |
| Primary mission profile | NE regional, 2–5 pax, second homes & business hops | Turboprop regional trips, 6–8 pax, longer legs | Light jet, 6–8 pax, regional / national jet travel |
Third-party figures based on published examples, for illustration only.
Part 135 charter operators will schedule you a premium piston aircraft for a Northeast trip. In off-peak months the prices look reasonable. In July, when you really need them, they are less so.
| Route | Charter Cost Peak season, comparable aircraft |
Matrix AirShare Any season, your aircraft |
|---|---|---|
| HPN → HYA Westchester to Cape Cod |
~$5,400 Cirrus SR22 (premium), July |
~$2,400 |
| TEB → JPX Teterboro to East Hampton |
~$3,500+ Peak summer Friday |
~$1,870 |
| CDW → MVY Caldwell to Martha's Vineyard |
~$4,000+ Peak season |
~$2,220 |
What charter can't give you:
- Availability disappears on peak summer Fridays — book weeks out or pay more
- Unknown carrier, unknown pilot, unknown aircraft condition — assigned at dispatch
- A new price decision every single trip — no predictability, no budget certainty
- No equity, no ownership, no operational control
Charter figures illustrative based on published and researched peak-season rates. Matrix figures include repositioning and minimums.
Blade runs scheduled helicopter and seaplane service from Manhattan heliports to Hamptons destinations. It's slick, it's fast, and it's well-run. It's also a scheduled airline — with an airline's constraints.
Blade pricing, Manhattan → East Hampton (one-way, per published rates):
- Scheduled seat: $795 / person
- 2 passengers: $1,590 — vs. Matrix ~$1,870 for the whole aircraft
- 3 passengers: $2,385 — vs. Matrix ~$1,870. You're paying more for less.
- 4 passengers: $3,180 — vs. Matrix ~$1,870. With strangers on Blade's schedule.
- Charter the whole helicopter: $4,770+
At three or more passengers, Matrix is cheaper than Blade every single trip — flying from an airport near you, in your own aircraft, with your own pilot.
What Blade can't give you:
- Fixed scheduled departures only — Blade's schedule, not yours
- Fixed routes: Manhattan heliports to Hamptons. That's it.
- No Cape Cod, no college town, no ski area, no Thanksgiving in Boston or Philadelphia — Blade doesn't go there
- Each passenger is a separate charge — did you want to bring the dog?
- No equity, no ownership, no operational control
Blade pricing per published seat rates at blade.com. Matrix figures per published rate structure including repositioning and minimums. All figures illustrative.