Caviar, champagne, a Caesar salad prepared at your seat, and an $800 Dopp kit all come standard on Blade’s semi-private jets to Florida this winter. The service, called BLADEone and run with Aero, starts flying between Westchester and Miami or Palm Beach in November, with only 16 seats and dining from Major Food Group, the team behind Carbone and Sadelle’s. The catch is a fare of close to $3,000 each way.

We’ve flown Blade’s Miami shuttle before, and it’s as nice as it sounds. But JSX flies the same Westchester-to-South Florida route out of private terminals, with fares that can come in under $1,000, and you can earn United MileagePlus miles or JSX credit along the way. BLADEone is clearly nicer. We’re just not sure it’s three times nicer.

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A three-hour flight to Miami this winter comes with caviar, a Caesar salad tossed right at your seat, and an almost $3,000 price tag.

Welcome back to Departure Digest. Today, we’re flying semi-private to Florida, bringing home a case of wine, and trying to score some free points.

That flight is called BLADEone, a collab between two companies you might not know unless you have really boujee friends.

Blade is best known for helicopter rides from Manhattan to the airport and seaplanes to the Hamptons.

Meanwhile, Aero is an L.A. company that flies semi-private jets. That means you book one seat, like you would on any airline, but it’s on a jet that leaves from a private terminal. You skip all the airport craziness and the long security lines.

Starting in November, BLADEone will fly between Westchester County Airport, just north of the city, and either Miami or Palm Beach. It’ll run mostly on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays. In other words, long weekends in Florida for all you snowbirds.

And if you’re starting in the city, you can even add on a helicopter ride up to Westchester, so you skip the traffic entirely.

The plane is a commercial-sized jet that’s been reconfigured with only 16 seats, so every seat is a window seat and an aisle seat.

Then there’s the food. On Aero’s West Coast flights, the catering comes from Erewhon, which is about as L.A. as it gets. BLADEone goes full New York instead.

The dining comes from Major Food Group, the team behind Carbone and Sadelle’s. That includes a Caesar salad prepared at your seat, caviar, and free-flowing drinks. Plus you’ll get a Dopp kit that’s apparently worth 800 bucks in personal care products.

A tableside Caesar at 30,000 feet is a very specific flex. And I’m not above it.

But here’s the catch. Buy a single seat, and you’re looking at close to $3,000 each way. Bringing your dog adds another $500. For that price, I’d want it to get its own seat.

I’ve flown Blade’s shuttle to Miami before, back before the Aero partnership, and it was as amazing as you’d expect. It was also as expensive as you’d expect.

That’s where JSX comes in. It’s also semi-private, and it also connects Westchester with South Florida. The experience is nowhere near as luxurious as BLADEone, but fares can come in under $1,000 each way.

BLADEone doesn’t have a loyalty program, so all that caviar earns you exactly zero miles. At least on JSX, you can earn United MileagePlus miles or credit toward future flights.

And if you’ve never flown with them, our link below can get you $100 off your first flight.

BLADEone is clearly the nicer experience. I’m just not convinced it’s three times nicer. The extra $2,000 mostly buys you caviar, a salad with a show, and about half as many seatmates.

So I’ll let you decide if it’s worth the splurge. Let’s just say I’m perfectly happy in coach, on flights that sometimes cost less than my Uber to the airport.

Okay, let’s move from caviar to Cabernet.

Delta just added a perk called Wine Takes Flight. As of this week, Delta SkyMiles members can check one case of wine for free on Delta flights leaving five Northern California airports. That’s San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sacramento, and Sonoma County.

That case would normally cost you the $45 first checked bag fee, so this is a pretty solid deal. You don’t need elite status, and award tickets count too.

A case means up to 12 standard bottles, under 50 pounds, in a proper wine shipping box. Leave it unsealed until you get to the ticket counter, since Delta may want to look inside.

If you’ve ever wrapped a bottle of Pinot in your favorite sweater and held your breath at baggage claim, this is a real improvement.

To be fair, Delta isn’t the first airline to do this. Alaska has run Wine Flies Free for years, and Southwest rolled out its own version, Sip and Ship, this summer.

Delta’s list is short for now, but the airline says it may grow. Whether it’s bottles from the wineries or leftovers from a Napa bachelorette, they can now fly home free. If you’re not tied to Delta, Alaska covers the most airports by far.

One last quick one. Earlier this week, Southwest launched a campaign called Enter Airplane Mode, and it comes with free points.

Its Notification Vacation promotion lets Southwest Rapid Rewards members turn the unread notifications on their phone into up to 10,000 points. There’s also a separate burnout quiz that pays 500 points.

Both are available while supplies last, so hopefully the points aren’t all gone by the time you listen to this.

Free points aside, I like the message. Most of us could use more airplane mode.

So even if the points are gone, go mute a few group chats.

All right, friends, have a great weekend, and I’ll talk to you Monday.