About This Desk

The company

The desk is open Monday to Friday from 8 am to 6 pm Central. A request sent outside those hours waits in the mailbox until somebody opens it, and no page here says anything different.

Look for a state file number here, or a federal tax number, or the name of an agent for service. None of the three is printed on any page. They are filing machinery between a company and a state government; a customer learns nothing about who they are dealing with from any of them, and dealing with somebody is the only reason to be on this page.

What this company is

Longeron Air Charter LLC is an air charter broker and not a direct air carrier. It owns no aircraft, employs no flight crew and holds no operating certificate. It takes a request, asks certificated operators what they can fly, and arranges the charter with one of them.

Longeron is an independent air charter broker. It is connected to no airline, no aircraft operator, no airport and no government body, none of them endorses or sponsors it, and it speaks for none of them.

Five things it has not got

No aircraft. No flight crew. No air carrier operating certificate. No insurance on any aircraft. No standing agreement with an operator that pins a price down ahead of a request.

Everything else written on this site traces back to one of those five.

Why the trading name has nothing to do with the domain

Two separate decisions. The address was bought; the name was chosen.

Both words in the address are ordinary English capable of describing nearly anything, and neither has any bearing on chartering an aircraft. A longeron is different: it is the long member running the length of a fuselage, taking the load, holding the shape. It never flies anywhere by itself and nobody photographs one. For a broker, that fits better than anything with wings in it.

Neither word from the address appears in the writing on any page here. An address is a way of arriving, not a name.

Six refusals

• Naming a price of this desk's own, there being no tariff to name it from
• Calling any operator licensed, insured, vetted, audited or safety rated
• Naming an aircraft type, model or manufacturer anywhere at all
• Presenting this company as an air carrier
• Running a review block, no review being genuine
• Printing a certificate number or a tally of flights arranged, both of which would be inventions

Each turns up again wherever it bites, and the claims table puts the formal version beside all nine advertising claims.