How this works
Where the Money Goes on a Charter
The useful way to read a charter quote is to know whose money each part is. Four of the five parts belong to somebody else, and the fifth, this desk's, is zero.
The split
| Slice | Belongs to | Sayable from here |
|---|---|---|
| The flying itself, by the hour or by the trip | The operator | No. It is their aircraft and their tariff |
| Positioning, the empty flying to reach you | The operator | No |
| Fees at the fields at each end | The fields, billed on by the operator | No |
| Taxes and any charge that applies to the flight | Set elsewhere, collected by the operator | No |
| What this desk charges a passenger | This desk | Yes: nothing, at any point |
Why no figure appears anywhere on this site
Because a broker with no operator agreement has no tariff of its own, and any number printed here would be one somebody made up.
That is not the usual practice. Publishing an hourly rate by size of aircraft is common, and where a broker actually holds agreements those numbers mean something. This one holds none, so it prints nothing and quotes what operators answer.
What this desk earns, and from whom
A broker is paid out of the arrangement with the operator rather than by the passenger. No passenger pays this desk anything at any stage, and the quote a passenger receives is the amount the operator requires.
If somebody wants that stated for their own trip in writing before committing, it will be, in the quote itself.
What a quote contains instead of a price list
A range, from the operators who answered, with what each one covers and what it leaves out, and the date and time it was assembled. It is worth less than a printed rate card would be, and it has the advantage of being true.