The problem with charter, as I see it, is you don't always know what you're getting. You are, in essence, rolling the dice sometimes.

It's like Donald Trump calling for a taxi cab to go from Times Square (totally random location) to some fancy dinner party in suburbia NY. Who is going to show up, crazy Ismail, who smells like cigarettes who has been working 14 straight hours and who is half-asleep with his nasty gym-shoes smelling crown-victoria with the muffler scraping the ground, or Mr. Alibaba in a nice pressed suit driving his brand-new black Mercedes sedan offering you an Evian bottled water??? Ok bad analogy, I know, but it's the best one I could muster up at 0630 in the morning.

I have an extensive background flying charter in my past life, so I'm not trying to dog charter. Just saying, when hopping on a NJA airplane, you know what to expect, you know where both crewmembers are trained, you know who they answer to, you know who is backing them, you know they were not up all night doing freight runs, you know the airplanes are not built in 1968, you know it's not the captains first revenue flight......again, I'm not trying to be a kool-aid drinker, just sayin......