NetJets Adds Security Services

NetJets recently launched QS Security Services to provide global security as an add-on option for its customers. The subsidiary will also help to enhance NetJets’ crew security by vetting airport-hotel transportation/routes and hotels used for crew rest, according to Jack VanderStoep, vice president of global security at NetJets and the head of QS Security Services.

QS Security Services will initially be available on select routes with tiered packages that correspond to the destination threat level and passenger needs. Currently, security packages are being offered at Paris Le Bourget and popular destinations in Mexico, VanderStoep told BJT. The services will be expanded to the rest of North America and Europe next year and to Central and South America, the Middle East, and Africa in 2021, with worldwide coverage expected in 2023.

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Components of security packages range from vetted limo transportation services and routes to armed convoys employing armored vehicles, in addition to close-protection agents and medically trained personnel. QS Security will also be able to provide onboard armed security officers to meet Homeland Security requirements to operate into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

QS Security Services will eventually also offer consulting and training as well as provide security for customers of NetJets subsidiaries NetJets Europe and Executive Jet Management, said VanderStoep.