The money
What a Charter Quote Is Made Of
Not one figure appears anywhere on this site. Somebody planning a trip is better served by the reason for that than by a table of numbers with nobody behind them.
Why there is no rate card
Brokers holding agreements with operators can publish what those agreements yield, and their numbers carry weight because somebody is bound by them.
This one holds no such agreement. It asks per request and repeats what comes back. Printing an hourly figure would mean publishing a tariff that belongs to nobody here, that nobody could be held to, and whoever planned around it would learn the difference standing on the ramp.
Where the money goes
| Part | Whose it is | Stated here |
|---|---|---|
| The flying itself | The operator | No, the tariff is theirs |
| Positioning, meaning the empty flying to reach you | The operator | No |
| Field charges at each end | The fields, billed on | No |
| Taxes and charges attaching to the flight | Set elsewhere | No |
| What a passenger pays this desk | This desk | Nothing, at any point |
What arrives instead of a number
A range, because several operators answer and they disagree.
Beside each: what it takes in, phrased in that operator's own terms, and what it leaves out, named rather than implied.
On all of them: the hour they were assembled, which matters because two of the three short lived answers move by the hour rather than by the day.
It costs nothing, it obliges nobody, and it goes stale rather than turning into anything. Why a charter quote expires takes that last point apart.
What moves an answer
The nine in what a quote rests on, each explaining in its own words why no operator can answer without it. Better than a list of price factors written here on an operator's behalf.
Prepayment, and the narrow thing that can be said
Charter is generally paid before anything moves. That arrangement is the operator's, not this desk's to set aside, which is why no prepayment is absent from the claims this site makes on the claims table.
What can be said is smaller and belongs entirely to this address: a passenger pays this desk nothing at any point, and no page here has a card field on it.