How this works

What a Broker Is, and Is Not

Almost every question a passenger has about a charter is a question about the operator. This company is not the operator, and saying so at the start is more useful than explaining it after something has gone wrong.

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.

What it does not have

No aircraft, of any size, owned or leased
No pilots and no cabin crew
No air carrier operating certificate, of any kind
No insurance on any aircraft, because there is no aircraft
No standing agreement with any operator that fixes a price in advance

What this desk answers for	What the operator answers for
That a request is written down accurately	The aircraft
That it is put to certificated operators	The crew
That answers are reported unedited, with the time they were given	Its own certificate and its own insurance
That a change is passed on the same working day	Its own price and its own contract of carriage
That the operator's identity is disclosed on request	The flight itself, from start to finish

A small plain waiting room with four chairs against a pale wall and a wide window showing an empty concrete apron under gray sky — The room a charter passenger actually waits in. Nobody in this picture works for this desk, because this desk is not at the field.

The disclosure rules

Air charter brokers in the United States operate under federal rules that require a broker to say plainly that it is a broker and not a direct air carrier, to identify the operator that will perform the flight on request, and not to misrepresent what it is arranging.

This site is written to satisfy those requirements in the ordinary reading of every page rather than in a paragraph nobody opens. The broker disclosure states them together in one place as well.

What this desk will never say about an operator

That it is licensed, insured, approved, vetted, audited or safety rated. Every one of those describes how another company stands with its regulator, and no paperwork belonging to anybody has been read at this address.

Claims about an operator are the operator's own to make, and a passenger is entitled to ask for its certificate before committing. This desk will always name the operator when asked, which is the useful thing a broker can actually offer.