Reasons for Chartering a Passenger Aircraft

Most of the time, when people start talking about aircraft charter we immediately think of luxurious Private Jets. However, there is an entire parallel business segment which relates to the chartering of Passenger Aircraft which can be considered equally important. In this article we will review the typical and most common reasons for chartering a Passenger Aircraft.

• Group Charters
  Against all odds, chartering a passenger aircraft for a group of people is not necessarily lower in cost than buying tickets on a scheduled airline for the same amount of people. In fact, most of the time the Passenger Aircraft Charter will be more expensive; so why Charter? One of the segments that frequently charter passenger aircraft are groups of people, such as sports teams, football teams, music bands and orchestra’s as well as film crew and entertainment groups.

• Flying to Remote Locations
  Passenger Aircraft are also chartered and contracted for transporting groups of people to remote locations (War Zones, or countries where scheduled carriers do not fly to); in these scenarios a passenger aircraft may be chartered. When landing strips are too rough for a passenger jet to land, a turboprop aircraft may be used instead.

• MICE and Incentives
  A very common and frequent user of Passenger Jet Charters are the MICE and Incentive industries; they often require large groups of people to be transported together and who generally cannot obtain such amount of individual tickets on scheduled services. Whenever MICE and Incentive programs contract a passenger aircraft on charter, they may often even get their Chartered aircraft personalized with the company’s logo on the seat headrests. 

• Emergency Evacuations
  Whenever a company requires to evacuate their personnel due to War, Natural Disasters or other reasons, the type of aircraft that is used most of the time will be a Passenger Aircraft or a Passenger Jet. In such scenarios it is not about the luxury of the aircraft but rather about its ability to perform a certain charter flight within very short notice. In the event of an emergency evacuation the aircraft charter of a passenger jet or a passenger aircraft is the fastest and most reliable way of getting the people out.