PilotnotPirate

Part of an interview with David Neeleman

On Charters and Other Distractions

Cranky: Let’s talk about charters.

David: There’s just a big need for charters. Big airlines are not really suited to do charters. You’ve got Swift out there. You know Swift is up to like 36 airplanes doing charters, all kinds of different charters. You’ve got sports charters and team charters, special event charters, and some flying low-utilization between certain markets. We’re gonna do all the above. We have a person that actually worked for me at Morris Air years and years ago. We started together. He came over from Swift, so we’ve got a lot of opportunities on charters. And those are very low risk obviously because you get paid before you ever take off. [The 195s are] perfect for that type of flying as well.