Executive Air Transport Blog

When you think of vacation, I’m guessing you picture summertime, beaches, and tropical drinks - but don’t count winter out for a fab vacay! Winter offers ample opportunity, with many long holiday weekends, to fit in a quick weekend getaway... With the hustle and bustle of the holidays behind us and the New Year here, you may already be thinking ahead to the long weekends around MLK Day, President’s Day, and Spring breaks in March or April. These long weekends might not offer enough space to travel commercial - with layovers, transfers, lines, and crowds. But, private charters cut out the crowds and lines, making a quick winter long-weekend trip possible!

There are plenty of obvious benefits to travel by private charter - like setting your own schedule, the luxury of more space, and avoiding crowds - but an often overlooked benefit to chartering is business growth. Over the past 100+ years, the face of business has changed from a local model, to a national model, and now a global model. With labor, production, raw materials, potential partners and clients located all over the United States, many businesses are needing to prioritize business travel in order to promote business growth. With business travel becoming a necessity for business growth; it also becomes necessary to travel in the smartest, most beneficial way possible. For many businesses, this will be through private charter. In fact, most Fortune 500 companies...

The thought of quick-turnaround business travel will likely make you feel exhausted and aggravated. Long lines, waiting in ques, traffic at the airport, parking, navigating the crowded terminals - you get the picture. Then, you need to do it all over again the next day for the return flight. No thank you. There’s got to be an easier, less stressful...

Maybe you’ve heard the term “empty-leg flight”, ​"dead legs", "empty sectors", "one-way transients" - but I'm guessing you’re not exactly sure what these flights are.An empty-leg flight is ​the return trip of a traditionally booked one-way private charter flight​. ​The jet needs to take flight to reposition itself for its next customer or return to its home-base​. ​Think of it in terms of how an Uber driver would need to return to a “home” location after dropping off a customer at their destination, but might take another customer from a nearby location back towards home...

We understand the stress of flying commercial. Waiting in long security lines while anxiously checking your watch to make sure you aren’t going to miss your flight. Running through the airport to get to your gate on time after a 45 minute security line. Only to find that your flight is full and that middle seat you were “saving for a friend” is now going to be filled by an unfriendly stranger...