How long for a contract?
12-16-2025 | 07:26 AM
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Charters have been worked into the schedules as much as they can, especially now since its holidays, most are slowing due to colleges being out, etc.
I did one of the first charters we had and they baked it into a flight schedule to not have completely empty planes on the repo flights, we actually ended up having like 15 going down and 2 completely full 321's for the charter, then the leg back to base was like 130 pax on what normally would have been an empty leg.
They want to mainly cater towards high volume charters or college teams, which is possible. In the end, the charter could be more, it just depends on what they want to do. They have no intention of doing deportation flights. That is Avelo's job.
I did one of the first charters we had and they baked it into a flight schedule to not have completely empty planes on the repo flights, we actually ended up having like 15 going down and 2 completely full 321's for the charter, then the leg back to base was like 130 pax on what normally would have been an empty leg.
They want to mainly cater towards high volume charters or college teams, which is possible. In the end, the charter could be more, it just depends on what they want to do. They have no intention of doing deportation flights. That is Avelo's job.
12-16-2025 | 08:52 AM
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Charters have been worked into the schedules as much as they can, especially now since its holidays, most are slowing due to colleges being out, etc.
I did one of the first charters we had and they baked it into a flight schedule to not have completely empty planes on the repo flights, we actually ended up having like 15 going down and 2 completely full 321's for the charter, then the leg back to base was like 130 pax on what normally would have been an empty leg.
They want to mainly cater towards high volume charters or college teams, which is possible. In the end, the charter could be more, it just depends on what they want to do. They have no intention of doing deportation flights. That is Avelo's job.
I did one of the first charters we had and they baked it into a flight schedule to not have completely empty planes on the repo flights, we actually ended up having like 15 going down and 2 completely full 321's for the charter, then the leg back to base was like 130 pax on what normally would have been an empty leg.
They want to mainly cater towards high volume charters or college teams, which is possible. In the end, the charter could be more, it just depends on what they want to do. They have no intention of doing deportation flights. That is Avelo's job.
Flew from D to A with about 15 pax, the repo for the charter.
Flew from A to B and back full, the actual charter legs.
Flew from A back to D with 130 pax, the repo back to base.
12-16-2025 | 12:41 PM
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This isn't the norm, but it can happen depending on what routes are being flown.
12-16-2025 | 12:53 PM
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12-16-2025 | 12:59 PM
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12-16-2025 | 07:19 PM
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How were you assigned the trip? Premium or DOT? Reserve assignment? Being that it’s on-demand and not scheduled charter, I venture to guess the pairing wasn’t in the bid packet…?
But then again, I could see a scenario where it was booked far enough in advance that it made it into the bid packet (sports teams knowing their schedule well in advance).
12-17-2025 | 06:10 PM
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How were you assigned the trip? Premium or DOT? Reserve assignment? Being that it’s on-demand and not scheduled charter, I venture to guess the pairing wasn’t in the bid packet…?
But then again, I could see a scenario where it was booked far enough in advance that it made it into the bid packet (sports teams knowing their schedule well in advance).
But then again, I could see a scenario where it was booked far enough in advance that it made it into the bid packet (sports teams knowing their schedule well in advance).
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