8 guides
Charter Guides
The parts of chartering an aircraft that people find genuinely confusing, written by the desk that gets asked.
How private jet charter pricing actually works
Why the hourly rate you were quoted is not the price, and what the number is really made of.
Empty leg flights, and when they are worth waiting for
The genuine discount in private aviation, and the reasons it is not the bargain the marketing suggests.
Jet cards versus on demand charter
What you actually buy with a jet card, and the specific circumstances where it beats booking each trip.
Choosing the right aircraft size without overpaying
Sector length sets the floor, runway sets the ceiling, and weight is a budget everything draws on.
Private jet safety ratings explained
What a Part 135 certificate covers, what a third party audit adds, and the questions to ask before you fly.
Flying private with pets
The main reason people move to private aviation, and the parts that still need planning.
International charter, customs and permits
What actually happens at a border on a private aircraft, and the lead times nobody warns you about.
Private terminals and FBOs explained
The building you actually depart from, what happens inside it, and how the ground experience really works.
Why these guides exist
Chartering an aircraft is one of the few significant purchases where the buyer is expected to make a decision without seeing a price list, an inventory screen, or a comparable transaction. That is not an accident of the industry being small. It is a direct consequence of how the economics work, and nobody explains it, because the confusion is commercially useful to almost everyone selling into it.
These guides explain it. Each one answers a question our desk gets asked in the same words, week after week, and each one includes the part a sales page would leave out.
What you will not find here
No hourly rate tables. We do not publish them because the number is not real, and any site printing one is either burying the rest of the cost structure or is about to add it after your deposit. What we publish instead is the arithmetic underneath, so you can read somebody else's quote and know what you are looking at.
No invented statistics. No review scores we cannot evidence. Where we do not know something, the guide says we do not know it, and tells you which question to put to the operator.
Where to start
If you have never chartered before, read the pricing guide first, then the piece on private terminals so the day itself holds no surprises. If you are comparing a jet card against booking each trip, that comparison has its own guide and it is written to be usable against a card you are already holding.
If you are choosing an aircraft, start with sector length rather than cabin photographs. The aircraft size guide explains why distance sets the floor, why runway sets the ceiling, and why weight is a budget that seats, bags and fuel all draw from at once.
If safety is your first question, and it should be, the ratings guide covers what a Part 135 certificate actually requires, what a third party audit adds on top of it, and the seven questions worth asking before you commit to an operator you have not flown with.
These are written by the desk
Everything here reflects how we source flights, including the parts that make our job harder. We tell you when an empty leg is a bad idea for your itinerary. We tell you when a trip is better flown commercially. We show our fee as a separate line rather than folding it into a single number you cannot decompose.
That is a commercial position, not a moral one. A client who understands what they bought comes back, and one who feels handled does not.
Photography on this site is representative. It does not depict a specific aircraft, operator or tail number offered for charter.