Private Jet Company Sues Twitter In New Hampshire For $197K For 2 Unpaid Flights

CONCORD, NH — A private jet company with corporate offices in New Hampshire and Florida is suing Twitter in U.S. District Court for unpaid bills from two chartered flights booked in late October.

Private Jet Services of Seabrook and Miami Beach, Florida, filed the case on Dec. 9, claiming the company was failing to pay $197,725 for two private air charter passenger transportation services the company requested on Oct. 26 and Oct. 27.

The company said it had a “blanket purchase agreement” with Twitter, which required “designated representatives” to book flights through the agreement. The company claimed Twitter, however, “did not always follow the process set forth in the BPA,” but the flights were booked and paid for anyway.

“For instance,” the suit stated, “on numerous occasions, Twitter employees other than its Designated Representatives booked and acknowledged its requested air charter passenger transportation services including via emails and text messages and not Statements of Work.”

The two flights in question occurred in late October.

One flight, on the morning of Oct. 26, was booked by a Twitter employee, Taylor DeLorenzo, to fly Leslie Berland, the former chief marketing officer and head of people for the company, from Teterboro, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California. The company was billed $103,850. A second flight, took Berland back to Teterboro, NJ, was booked on the evening Oct. 27. That flight cost $93,875.

Berland quit the company on Nov. 1, according to TechCrunch.com.

The invoices for both flights were due to be paid on Nov. 2 and Nov. 3 but were not.

In the middle of November, Marty O’Neill, the head of global strategic sourcing at Twitter, emailed Private Jet Services to inform them Twitter was “not liable for these expenses” and would not be paying the bill. He added the corporate contract required designated representatives to book the flights, and this had not occurred.

In a reply, DeLorenzo explained former CEO Parag Agrawal, who was a designated representative, did sign off on the flights.

“It was an urgent need the week the deal closed, and Leslie was the main person from Twitter liaising directly with Elon,” the suit said he wrote. “Additionally, I had been approving all of the PJS transactions prior to this one — all of which Twitter paid with no issue or mention of the below requirements. Just wanted to share additional context here.”

O’Neill countered, while he appreciated the added context, “new management is not going to budge and while yes, you had been requesting, it doesn’t change the terms agreed to in the agreement.” He added, “If anything, legally, we shouldn’t have paid for when you made those requests, or alternatively, Private Jet Services could have cited breach of contract.” O’Neill also stated new management wanted to “hold firm on this.”

Private Jet Services’ attorneys, Shaheen & Gordon, which posted the filing, accused Twitter of breach of contract and requested judgment for the unpaid flights and “reasonable attorney’s fees and litigation costs.”

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