Wheels up is EXCLUSIVELY connected to Gama Aviation for all their operations. Kenny Dichter is the CEO of Wheels Up. Through their program called Wheels Down, all conceirge services are handled by the company Four Hundred. This is an invite only lifestyle management firm. Help dig for connections. These circles likely have interesting characters. Tony Shepherd took over for Tony Abrams who managed the Four Hundred club originally started by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor at her mansion in Manhattan (Empire State building site). Only snips of articles included below.

Wheels Down Concierge

Wheels Up has collaborated with Four Hundred–the premier, invitation-only, lifestyle management firm to provide members with full-scale concierge and travel services worldwide.

Through Wheels Down Concierge, members receive access to Four Hundred Travel, a Virtuoso affiliated travel agency.

http://pages.wheelsup.com/NL2017FathersDayMemberBenefitsNewsletter_LP_WheelsDownConcierge.html

Wheels Up Launches Full-Service Luxury Concierge Program

Wheels Up members, on a progressive basis, will receive Four Hundred’s invitation-only bespoke services and dedicated team of NYC-based personal lifestyle specialists who have their finger on the pulse of pop culture and today’s entertainment and lifestyle hot spots, attractions and events across the globe. Wheels Up is known for its 8760 culture (referencing the number of hours in a year), fulfilling members’ needs every hour, of every day, throughout the year in the air and on the ground.

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/wheels-launches-full-service-luxury-concierge-program-243318/#!

New York-Based Four Hundred™ Appoints Tony Shepherd Chief Executive Officer

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – The leading private membership lifestyle management company Four Hundred™️ has appointed industry veteran Tony Shepherd as the Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective immediately. Shepherd brings in-depth and comprehensive knowledge in operations, sales, marketing and acquisitions to this role. He will succeed current CEO and Founder, Tony Abrams, who will remain fully active in the company and take on the newly created position of Chairman.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-york-based-four-hundred-appoints-tony-shepherd-chief-executive-officer-300749450.html

The Four Hundred: Then and Now

Four hundred might be one of the only numbers that has a place in the dictionary. Its definition reads: “The social elite of a community.” But it wasn’t until the late 1800s that 400 had any real value.

Before The Real Housewives of NYC, Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor dominated Gilded Age New York society, throwing the balls that everyone who was anyone attended. The problem was that her ballroom only held 400 people, and thanks to the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution, there were now many more than 400 high society millionaires in New York City. So she had to narrow down the list of invitees to the absolute most important and elite New Yorkers. She enlisted self-proclaimed society expert Ward McAllister to help her whittle down the numbers, and The Four Hundred was born. Those who made the cut included Roosevelts and Winthrops, among other famously fancy last names.

The balls were lavish annual parties thrown at the Astor mansion in Manhattan (which was located where the Empire State Building stands today), with supper, entertainment, dancing and over-the-top party favors—apparently she once gave the men silver trumpets! Women wore gowns designed specifically for these soirees and men donned their best tuxes.

http://dujour.com/news/four-hundred-society-secrets/

Four Hundred website

https://www.fourhundred.com/

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Vanderbilt - Astor - Four Hundred - Gama Aviation - Wheels Up connection probable

Some of Astor's Four Hundred guests Jan 29, 1900 for further connection verifying

The Count and Countess de Castellane, who had come from Lakewood especially for the occasion, were among the first guests to arrive, at 10:30 P.M. The Countess wore a gown of reseda brocade, with all her diamonds, including the Countess coronet.

Among other guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. Maturin Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Orme Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, Mr. and Mrs. Lanfear Norrie, Miss Barbey, Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Jr., Miss Laura Swan, Mrs. Frederic Kernochan, the Misses Kernochan, Mr. and Mrs. Townsend Burden, Miss Evelyn Burden, Miss Daisy Post, Mr. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clews, Miss Clews, the Misses Cameron, Miss Marie Winthrop, Miss Hall, the Misses Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Cutting and Miss Cutting, Senator Depew, Baron von Holleben, the German Ambassador.

Mr. and Mrs. Watts Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze, Miss Parsons, Miss Angelica Schuyler Church, Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry, the Misses Gerry, Mr. Robert Gerry, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bryce, Miss Clare Bryce, the Misses Hewitt, Mr. Thomas F. Cushing, Miss Cushing, Mr. and Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer, Mrs. Burke-Roche, Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. Storrs Wells, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Rives, Miss Whiting, Mr. and Mrs. B.C. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stickney, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Emmet, Miss Josephine Johnson.

Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Miss Mary Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Bridgham, Mr. and Mrs. John I. Kane, Mr. and Mrs. Kean, Mrs. John Minturn, Miss Minturn, Miss Field, Miss Sands, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tailer, Mr. and Mrs. Grenville Kane, Mr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Norrie, Gen. Burnett and Mrs. Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. George B. De Forest, Miss Beatrice Bend, Mr. and Mrs. A. Newbold Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Smith, and Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Berwind.

Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Wysong, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Breese, Mrs. Alfonso de Navarro, Mr. William Stewart, Mr. Lispenard Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Witherbee, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Jr., Mr. C. Stacy Clark, Mrs. George Kingsland, Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Oakley Rhinelander, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster, Mr. James de Wolf Cutting, Mr. Potter Palmer, Jr.

Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Mr. William Cutting, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Suydam, Mr. A.M. Hadden, Miss Ethel Davies, Mr. Craig Wadsworth, Mr. David Bishop, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. McVickar, Miss Eleanor Robinson, Miss Augusta Robinson, Mr. Harry Sands, the Vicomte de Garets, Mr. frederick Bull, Mr. Frank Polk, Mr. Barclay Kountze, and Mr.. Creighton Webb.

Mr. and Mrs. Orme Wilson, R. T. Wilson, Jr., Mr. Heber Bishop, Miss Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. J.F.D. Lanier, Mr. E. de P. Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parish, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Coster, Miss Evelyn Sloane, Miss Iselin, Miss Coudert, Mr. and Mrs. Almeric Paget, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs.

Mrs. Post, Mr. and Mrs. F. Burrall Hoffman, Mrs. C. Albert Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Cammann, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hooker Hamersley, Mrs. A. Gallatin, Miss Gallatin, Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Jones, Mrs. W. Pierson, Hamilton, and Miss Morgan.

http://www.thehistorybox.com/ny_city/society/printerfriendly/nycity_society_balls_dances_article00222.htm