Air charter
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Boeing 737-300 of the UK charter airline Titan Airways
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline).
Contents
1 Regulation
2 Types of service
3 Aircraft categories
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
7 External links
Regulation
Charter, also called air taxi or ad-hoc flights require certification from the associated country's regulating body such as the FAA in the U.S. The regulations are differentiated from typical commercial/passenger service by offering a non-scheduled service. In the U.S. these flights are regulated under FAA Part 135[1]. There are some cases where a charter operator can sell scheduled flights, but only in limited quantities[2].
The same regulations also apply to Air Ambulance and cargo operators.
Types of service
There are several business models which offer air charter services from the traditional charter operator to brokers and jet card programs:
- Charter Operators - certified by their associated government body such as the FAA for US carriers have legal authority to advertise and conduct flights for hire.
- Air Charter Broker - Charter Brokers arrange flights on behalf of their clients, acting as an "Authorized Agent"[3].
Jet card - Programs offered by both brokers and operators where a customer is offered a fixed hourly rate for a specific jet category and the broker or operator sources a jet from the available charter fleet.
Aircraft categories
Charter aircraft categories include:
- Seaplanes - examples: DHC-2 Beaver, DHC-3 Otter
- Turbo props - examples: Pilatus PC-12, King Air 350, Piaggio P-180 Avanti
- Light jets - examples: Phenom 300, CJ3
- Mid-cabin jets - examples: Learjet 60, Hawker 800XP
- Super mid-cabin jets - examples: Citation X, Challenger 300
- Large jets - examples: Bombardier Challenger 605, Falcon 900
- Ultra long-range jets - examples: Gulfstream V, Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500
- VIP airliners - example: Boeing Business Jet
There are an estimated 15,000 business jets available for charter in the world. The US market is the largest, followed by the European market with growing activity in the Middle East, Asia, and Central America.[4]
See also
- Air taxi
- Commercial aviation
References
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^ "NBAA Guide to Selling Charter by the Seat" (PDF). National Business Aviation Association. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ "Jet Charter Broker". jets.com. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
^ Asp, Maria. "Private Jet Charter and Sales 2014". Sand Aviation Publishing. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
External links
- Evaluating the Efficiency of a Small Aircraft Transportation System Network Using Planning and Simulation Models (2006)
- Nationwide Impacts of Very Light Jet Traffic in the Future Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) (2006)
- A Transportation Systems Analysis Model (TSAM) to study the impact of the Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) (2005)
- An Integrated Model To Study The Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) (2003)
Transportation Systems Analysis Model, a nationwide transportation planning model to forecast air taxi demand in the United States
Private jets for non-gazillionaires. The changing landscape of air taxi and air charter.
External links
Media related to Charter airlines at Wikimedia Commons
