Air Charter

What is The Business of Air Charting:

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).

Charter, also called air taxi or ad-hoc flights require certification from the associated country's national aviation authority. 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.There are some cases where a charter operator can sell scheduled flights, but only in limited quantities.

Charter Operation:

It is an operation for hire and reward in which the departure time, departure location and arrival location are specially negotiated with the customer or with customer’s representagtive for entire aircraft.

Types of service in air charting:

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".

·         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.

·         Online marketplace – Online Booking platform where the client can choose and book the desired aircraft directly with the operator.

What does for NSOP stands for:

NSOP- Non-Schedule Operating Permits

What does NSOP mean?

Well we can find out that by understanding the difference between non-schedule airlines and schedule airlines.

One more thing to understand-

Only NSOP holder operates non-schedule airlines and schedule airlines are operated by AOP (Air Operator Permit)holders. Schedule airlines only operate flights for commercial pupose.

Non-Schedule Airlines:

A Non-scheduled airline is a company that offers unscheduled air transport services of passengers or goods at an hourly or per mile / kilometer charge for chartering the entire aircraft along with crew. A non-scheduled airline may hold domestic or international licenses, or both, and operates under the regulations prescribed by its respective civilian national aviation authority.

Schedule Airline:

Scheduled airlines, like the major flag carriers, operate flights according to schedules drawn up to cover several months or even years at a time. These airlines are thus committed to flying the planes for the said periods on the said routes whether they are filled or not. In so doing they offer a predictable range of services and can thus be booked up to 1 year in advance in some cases. Also, they nowadays often operate in codeshares with other carriers to offer even more services but, to do so, the importance of keeping to schedules is emphasized. Scheduled flights are thus preferred by most travellers, especially business flyers.

Charter airlines charge lower fares by anticipating a full load or else pre-selling the plane's capacity to an agent, who then sells off the seats to passengers. In order to do so, however, they must be assured of a full load and so they generally operate only at peak periods on specific routes. For example, the Caribbean is served by a number of European charters during the peak tourist season, November to April. Some of these carriers include Condor Flugdienst, jmc air, Airtours, Britannia and Martinair. In POS, however, the charters usually come from JFK or YYZ during Carnival (February), summer and Christmas when passenger traffic here is heaviest (eg Tower, ATA, Royal, Skyservice, Air Transat). By preselling the seats and anticipating demand charters are able to serve long, thin routes which would be very unprofitable to run on a scheduled basis.

Shruti Chauhan MBA
Manager Aviation
AirCrews Aviation Pvt Ltd
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