DFI Executive Mobility Intelligence

The True Cost of Commercial Travel™

Transportation price is visible. The value of time consumed by fragmented movement often is not. This analysis makes that cost measurable.

The governing question

What does the journey consume beyond the price of the ticket?

Compare commercial and private door-to-door movement, calculate the collective value of the party’s time, and estimate what a more controlled mobility environment could return. This tool informs private consideration; it does not assume private aviation is appropriate for every mission.

Private calculation · Entries are not stored

Build the movement profile.

Complete the five sections below. Calculations occur inside your browser. DFI does not receive or retain the financial values entered here.

Select the route

Airport results include worldwide airports with at least one documented runway of 5,000 feet or longer.

Origin airport

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Destination airport

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Define the party

Enter annual economic value, including salary, business income, contractual earnings, or another reasonable measure of responsibility.

Analysis mode

Individual or Executive PartyCorporate or Team Movement

Passenger 1

Passenger 2

Passenger 3

Passenger 4

Passenger 5

Passenger 6

Individual entries must be between $60,000 and $20 million. These values estimate the economic value of time and do not determine eligibility for Authority Access or private aviation.

Define the frequency

Annualization reveals what repeated fragmentation consumes over time.

Journey type

One wayRound trip

Similar journeys annuallyUsed only for the annualized result.

Productive hours annually2,000 hours is the default valuation basis.

Time-value recognition

25% Conservative50% Balanced100% Full value

Commercial assumptions

Adjust the defaults when the actual airport, itinerary, baggage, or ground requirements are known.

Ground time to commercial airportMinutes

Check-in and securityMinutes

Terminal movement and gate waitingMinutes

Boarding and taxi-outMinutes

Taxi-in, deplaning, and baggageMinutes

Ground time to final destinationMinutes

First-class ticket, per passengerUSD · Leave blank for distance-based estimate

The default commercial predeparture process totals 120 minutes, consistent with a two-hour airport-arrival allowance.

Private assumptions

Private timing reflects FBO-based movement. It is not a charter quotation or aircraft recommendation.

Ground time to private airportMinutes

FBO advance arrivalMinutes

Boarding, taxi-out, and taxi-inMinutes

Ground time to final destinationMinutes

Calculate the value of time.

This analysis compares estimated door-to-door time. Private charter pricing is intentionally excluded because aircraft selection must follow the mission.

Commercial time—

Private time—

Time recovered—

Adjusted value recovered—

Collective passenger hours multiply journey time by the number of valued passengers. Economic-value results apply the selected 25%, 50%, or 100% recognition factor.

Commercial movement

Estimated door-to-door time: —
Estimated first-class spend: —
Adjusted time value consumed: —

Private mobility

Estimated door-to-door time: —
Time recovered per journey: —
Annual working days returned: —

Illustrative educational analysis only. Results are estimates based on user entries, geographic distance, and stated assumptions. They do not constitute a charter quotation, financial advice, a guarantee of savings, or confirmation that an airport or aircraft is operationally suitable. Aircraft, operator, runway, weather, weight, performance, and regulatory requirements require independent mission-specific verification.

Transparent methodology

The calculation should withstand scrutiny.

Time is door to door.

The analysis includes ground movement, airport processes, boarding, airborne time, arrival procedures, and destination transfer—not flight time alone.

Value is adjustable.

Annual economic value is divided by productive hours. A recognition factor prevents the model from assuming every recovered hour becomes earned income.

Suitability remains governed.

A 5,000-foot runway is an initial directory filter, not operational approval. Final airport and aircraft suitability remain subject to operator verification.

Airport and runway directory derived from the public-domain OurAirports datasets. Data may be incomplete or inaccurate and is provided only for initial comparison. Commercial airport-arrival assumptions should be adjusted for airline, airport, itinerary, baggage, security program, and current conditions.

Private consideration

The next question is not whether private aviation is always better.

It is whether a particular responsibility, route, party, and schedule justify a more prepared mobility alternative.

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