Originally Posted by rusty_c
I have to agree with you there.
One flight a day offers zero flexibility.
I have heard however that the catering on Privatair is not full of any bright ideas or innovation.
A rep from another airline once said to me "People would rather fly in a 747 than a 757. How good does it sound when you say you flew over in a plane that many airlines use for charters?" Who agrees?
Rusty:
I think you're missing at least a couple of points here.
Privatair provides a service corresponding to the standard business class service of the carrier it's working for. So it's providing standard Lufthansa or KLM or Swiss catering and its cabin crew are dressed in Lufthansa or KLM or Swiss uniforms. Privatair's advantage is not that's it's delivering a super-luxury or innovative in-flight product, but rather that, by virtue of its smaller aircraft, the major carrier is able to offer business passengers a non-stop service on a route which wouldn't justify such a service in the first place with a larger plane.
And as for "how good does it sound...?" it sounds to me as though someone was smoking something, or maybe just winding you up! Have you noticed that 747s are used for charters too?
I *could* perhaps imagine a reaction among nervous flyers: "oh no, I don't want to fly a long overwater sector in a relatively small plane like that." But "I don't want to fly in that because other airlines use it for charter flights and so people will think worse of me"?
Hello? 
EOS does indeed have an extremely generous frequent flyer programme. However it essentially consists of cash back. From the airline's point of view this is far more onerous than a "traditional" programme where the passenger can earn miles for future travel. In a traditional FFP the cost to the carrier of a free award ticket is the marginal cost of carrying one more passenger (because Rev Man will aim to avoid displacing a revenue passenger with an award one). Thus my 50,000 miles entitling me to a transatlantic round trip will only show up on the carrier's balance sheet as e.g. £50 (if that's the marginal cost of catering, fuel, ticket issuance, etc.). However in EOS's case, they're offering iPods, flights on other carriers, and so on, which third parties have to be paid for in cash. So yes, it's attractive for the punter, but it's a further (large) chunk off the passenger revenue, much more so than for their competitors.