Aircharter
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Air Charter Transportation Concierge Service |
| Founded 📆 | California, USA (1985) |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , USA |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Services | Private Jet Charter, Transportation, Limo service |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 46 (2014) |
| 🌐 Website | Aircharter.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Aircharter.com LLC is an American Business jet Air charter company headquartered in New York City, New York, USA. Aircharter LLC is a company formed when Flighttime merged with Aircharter in 1991. Aircharter is a broker and does not own or operate any aircraft. As a broker, Aircharter pools together operators’ pricing, allowing the customer to choose an aircraft operator.[1] Aircharter LLC currently has 5 offices, in New York, California, France, England, and Morocco.[2][3][4]
History
Prior to its acquisition, a company called Flighttime was founded in 1985.[5] Flighttime had a database of thousands of aircraft. In 1985, Flighttime treated all of their requests manually, calling various operators and requesting pricing for the customer, until the customer was content with the price given. In 1999, Flighttime was bought by a newly formed company[6] Aircharter LLC, with the intention of automating Flighttime's operations.[7] Wyvern split off into its own company and the rest of Flighttime became Aircharter.[8] Aircharter LLC developed a web booking system for customers to receive quotes and accept or deny bids online in 2002.[9] In 2013, Aircharter LLC released the new eCharterConnect web portal in which customers, brokers, and operators can work together under one system.[3]
Activities
Aircharter LLC operates like a broker, serving as a middleman between aircraft operators and customers to search for the best pricing among multiple operators.[1] Aircharter LLC also provides ground transportation services for large groups or VIPs, along with other special requests.
Aircharter's primary activity is private jet rental for customers who do not own but wish to fly in private aircraft. This includes smaller private jet aircraft but also airliner-size aircraft for large groups that want to charter their own aircraft.[10]
Alongside private jet rental, Aircharter develops in-house software[11] for calculating pricing on private jets. Using information from the aircraft owners, the software calculates the estimated price of a trip including fuel fees, takeoff and landing fees, the aircraft's hourly fee, wind changes and a percentage of uncertainty to give the customer a quotation approximating the real price.[12] The software backend is marketed towards other brokers, allowing them to utilize the eCharterConnect software for their own trip requests.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "NBAA Best Practices for Air Charter Brokering" (PDF). NBAA. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ Alex, Becket. "New AirCharter international offices". Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Aircharter Info". Aircharter LLC. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "AirCharter.com Adds Instant Guaranteed Prices for Corporate Charters". Business Wire. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "About Flighttime". Air Charter Services. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "Wyvern negotiates escape from FlightTime.com". Flight International. 2002-07-09. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ Simmons, Lisa (2000-06-21). "FlightTime.com brings charter booking online". Marketing Magazine. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "FlightTime Defies Industry Trends with..." PR Newswire. March 27. Retrieved 9 December 2013. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Ex-FlightTime duo in charter launch". FlightGlobal. 2002-10-10. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ http://www.aircharter.com/commercialcharter.htm
- ↑ "flight time corporation to create global aviation network..." Odyssey Mediagroup. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "eCharterConnect information". Zineth. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ http://aircharter.echarterconnect.com/
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