Outraged female Pilates fans paid $200 to attend glitzy class in aircraft hangar… only to show up and realize they’d been scammed

Sky Jet Pilates advertised a luxury Pilates class at Henderson Executive Airport in Las Vegas on 6 November, but nearly 40 ticket-holders found no event when they arrived. The women, who had travelled from several states and paid $200 each, said they waited for hours and could not reach the company; attendees described the confusion and concluded they had been scammed.

Sky Jet Pilates later said in a since-deleted post that a venue permit issue had prevented the class, despite the company claiming it had a signed agreement for more than two months. The company said it was seeking a resolution with the venue and refunded all attendees. The Better Business Bureau said the Florida-based company had been founded four months earlier and was not registered with it, though Sky Jet Pilates had held a reported pop-up event in September.