The Wild Behavior of People With BLADE Unlimited Passes in the Hamptons

Plus: Nantucket may be getting a new members club, Donohue's Steak House official closing date, and Caryn Zucker and David Rubenstein tied the knot!

It finally feels like summer. The weather has settled in, Game 3 of the Knicks Finals is tonight, and I just spent my first weekend of the season out east in Sag Harbor.

Regular readers will remember BLADE’s Hamptons Limitless Pass, the all-you-can-fly package between Manhattan and the Hamptons. This year, the pass costs $25,000, up 39 percent from last year’s $18,000 price tag. The Limitless means you can fly as many times as you want, no blackout dates, on a Bell 407 helicopter or amphibious seaplane, Manhattan to the Hamptons seven days a week through Labor Day, with JFK and Newark transfers included. Recently, I started hearing stories about what some people do with unlimited helicopter rides at their disposal.

Considering there are only 15 weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the appeal is obvious. Once people have it, behavior goes one of two ways: nothing changes, or things get a little unhinged. I want to talk about the hilarious stuff people do to cash in on an unlimited helicopter pass. After all, there is a reason these passes sell so well.

In fact, I assumed they had sold out entirely. It turns out BLADE simply stopped marketing them. (In actuality, I’m hearing that if you call directly, there are still a handful available.) Considering how long it took me to get out East on Friday, perhaps it really is money well spent. After all, we’ve still got 13 weekends left in the summer.

Also in today’s letter: a new members club coming to Nantucket, Cotswolds drama thanks to Ellen Degeneres, Donohue’s Steak House’s official closing date, wunderkind chef Flynn McGarry on where all the spring vegetables went, Benjamin Millipied and Roland Garros, what everyone is saying about the SpaceX IPO, Caryn Zucker and David Rubenstein tied the knot and more…