Shaquille O'Neal in a Gulfstream IVSP in 2001 - Check out the Air Charter Guide Cover!

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Shaquille O'Neal in a Gulfstream IVSP in 2001 - Check out the Air Charter Guide Cover!

As the NBA season is to start in October we found this beauty of a cover of our 15 year anniversary edition of The Air Charter Guide from 2001. Founder Fred Gevalt writes in his foreword: “It takes a big guy to obscure the fuselage of ... a Gulfstream IVSP, but at seven feet one inch, Lakers ace Shaquille O’Neal is clearly the man for the job.” Shaq points out about the heavy jet:” I have room to stretch out. That’s a real luxury for me.” The 4x NBA champion was then one of private jet charter broker company eBizJet’s (now Sentient) more visible customer advocates in 2001. He appreciated the fact that with a travel card plan he “gets where he needs to be, safely, and at a great price.” 

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Residential Airparks: Flying Away Home

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Residential Airparks: Flying Away Home

Today, the Internet is everywhere, but flying cars remain a daydream. The energy needs, safety concerns and logistical complications that the concept would require are daunting, and regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration have more than enough to do in overseeing existing flight technology. However, for those looking to live in communities based around air travel rather than automobiles, there is an option – residential airparks, or neighborhoods centered around runways rather than roads. If you’re tired of a wheel-centered lifestyle and want more time in the air, read on.

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FBO Spotlight: Sheltair Aviation

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FBO Spotlight: Sheltair Aviation

Air Charter Guide recently spoke with Kai Seymour of Sheltair Aviation, a family-owned company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Founded in 1963 by Jerry Holland, Sheltair has grown into the nation’s largest privately-owned aviation network, operating 14 award-winning FBOs and managing over 4.6 million square feet of aviation-related properties. With a focus on customer satisfaction, Sheltair provides a wide range of services for general aviation travelers, flight crews, and aircraft.

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Per Seat Charter: Flying Private 1-by-1

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Per Seat Charter: Flying Private 1-by-1

When it comes to overall comfort in travel, charter aviation offers one of the best options around. While airline journeys are certainly faster than what cars or even most trains can provide, it also involves early airport arrivals, long lines, complicated security processes, crowded terminals, unexpected delays, narrow seats and all sorts of other inconveniences and frustrations that make flying something to be tolerated rather than enjoyed.

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Flight Support Spotlight: Jetstream International Pvt. Ltd.

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Flight Support Spotlight: Jetstream International Pvt. Ltd.

Air Charter Guide recently spoke with JetStream International Pvt. Ltd., a global aviation trip support provider headquartered in India. Jetstream International Pvt. Ltd. specializes in delivering 24/7 flight operations services for business aviation, commercial airlines, cargo operators, air ambulance providers, and government flights. Their comprehensive offerings include overflight and landing permits, ground handling coordination, flight planning and dispatch, fuel arrangements, airport slots, aircraft catering, crew accommodation and transportation, FBO coordination, and aircraft charter solutions.

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The Air Charter Guide's 40 Year Print Edition and How Air Ambulance Brokerage ParaFlight and Founder Sim Shain Took Wing

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The Air Charter Guide's 40 Year Print Edition and How Air Ambulance Brokerage ParaFlight and Founder Sim Shain Took Wing

This year’s print edition of The Air Charter Guide celebrates 40 wonderful years of working with the aviation community and seeing the industry grow and evolve non-stop high above the global clouds. We thank all of you for your contributions and making this a successful and meaningful journey! The Air Charter Guide’s 40th anniversary edition features Sim Shain on the front cover and talks about Shain’s career and the beginnings of his air ambulance brokerage firm Paraflight.

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Melbourne Cup Getaway

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Melbourne Cup Getaway

When spring in Victoria arrives with long gold afternoons settling over the Maribyrnong River as the days lengthen toward summer, somewhere in early November, for two minutes on a Tuesday, the entire country stops moving to watch a horse race. This is the particular alchemy that produces the Melbourne Cup. The race has been run at Flemington since 1861, the brainchild of police commissioner Frederick Standish and industrialist Robert Bagot, who wanted a staying event that would draw the finest horses from Australia and beyond.

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Private Jet Cards: Prepaid Charter

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Private Jet Cards: Prepaid Charter

Jet card membership programs allow you to buy into a setup offering a set number or range of flight hours, typically at specified hourly rates. Introduced near the end of the 20th century, jet cards have become a multibillion-dollar industry for flyers looking for the convenience of private jet travel with less uncertainty than charter and less commitment than fractional ownership. If this sounds intriguing to you, read on.

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The Finest Jockeys at the 2026 Qatar Goodwood Festival

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The Finest Jockeys at the 2026 Qatar Goodwood Festival

Late July in West Sussex has a quality that is difficult to manufacture and impossible to fake. The South Downs roll southward in long, unhurried sweeps toward the coast, the light sits low and golden on the chalk hills by mid-afternoon, and somewhere above Chichester, if the wind is right, you can smell the sea. This is the particular geography that produces Glorious Goodwood. This five-day racing festival has been drawing the finest thoroughbreds and the most discerning crowd in British sport to the Goodwood Estate since the 3rd Duke of Richmond opened the course to the public in 1802. King Edward VII, who rarely passed up an opportunity to enjoy himself, called it "a garden party with racing tacked on." He was not wrong, but he was being modest

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Supersonic Blast Past the Concorde

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Supersonic Blast Past the Concorde

In the 1997 summer edition of The Air Charter Guide, founder Fred Gevalt wrote in his foreword: “As I look out the window of the Concorde, I find it hard to believe. A touch of “reheat”, and Chuck Yeager’s milestone is gone in a blast. Scott Crossfield’s is next as the stewardess offers more champagne and caviar at nearly 60,000 feet, enroute to Europe at Mach two. Could the pilgrims have known that three hundred years later their descendants would hurtle through the air twelve miles above the Mayflower going back in the opposite direction at the speed of a musket ball? I am sure if you’d predicted it you’d have been burned at the stake.”

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Grateful Deadhead: Navigating Empty Legs

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Grateful Deadhead: Navigating Empty Legs

Given the financial commitment represented by a private jet flight, many would-be newbies are looking to dip their toes in rather than dive in fully. One way to do this is to search for “deadheads” – otherwise empty flights occurring solely to reposition planes to more desirable locations. These “empty legs” can offer the opportunity to fly private much more cheaply than usual; however, they come with certain complications of which potential participants should be aware. If you’d like to more know about filling up empty legs, read on.

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The Windy City Never Sounded This Good

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The Windy City Never Sounded This Good

Every August, Grant Park stops being a park. The skyline is still there, the lakefront still stretches east, but the 319 acres between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive become something else entirely: eight stages, 170 artists, close to 400,000 people, and the kind of controlled chaos that has been filling five-star hotels and emptying Michelin-starred tasting menus for twenty straight years.

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Broker Spotlight: Apron Jet

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Broker Spotlight: Apron Jet

Air Charter Guide recently spoke with Mr. Zafer Yesilgul, founder and CEO of Apron Group. Under the guidance of Mr. Yesilgul, Apron Jet's dedicated team of experts has become a global brand. Apron Jet is at your service 24/7 with thousands of business jets, hundreds of helicopters and air ambulances in its database.

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The World's Game Comes to the Americas

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The World's Game Comes to the Americas

There is a particular kind of madness that descends on the world every four years. It arrives in packed streets, in tears on pitches, in the roar of a billion people watching the same moment across every time zone. The FIFA World Cup, in the summer of 2026, will land on North American soil for the first time since 1994, bigger than the sport has ever known.

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Long Range Private Jets: So Far Away

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Long Range Private Jets: So Far Away

In the summer of 2026, the (men’s) World Cup will take place across Canada, Mexico and the U.S., with 48 teams competing in 104 matches vs. 24 teams in 52 matches. The event will draw fans from all over the world. Certainly, some will squeeze themselves into economy airline seats, or sojourn via group charter. Others will spring for a first-class ticket. However, there exists another alternative – private jet travel.

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Charter Spotlight: Malone AirCharter

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Charter Spotlight: Malone AirCharter

Air Charter Guide recently spoke with Cristine Kirk of Malone AirCharter, a woman-owned business based in Jacksonville, Florida. Malone AirCharter focuses on safety, comfort and convenience, providing on-demand service across the continental United States, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and Canada.

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Cleveland Rocked - Explore With Us at Aero Friedrichshafen

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Cleveland Rocked - Explore With Us at Aero Friedrichshafen

March was a really busy month for our crew! First up, our Ian Sheppard, Senior Researcher AC-U-KWIK at Aviation Week by Informa attended the annual Air Charter Association (ACA) Spring Lunch at the magnificent Guildhall in London. He was happy to present a one-year AC-U-KWIK Premium subscription, donated by The Air Charter Guide, to Samanda Omanovic, a Malta-based flight manager IW Aviation. Amanda was over the moon to receive, in her own words, this “incredibly useful” subscription.

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FBO Spotlight: ICCS

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FBO Spotlight: ICCS

Air Charter Guide recently spoke with Nora Rodriguez of ICCS, the largest FBO network in Mexico, with six company-owned facilities strategically located across key destinations. Headquartered in Mexico, ICCS specializes in premium aviation services, including ground handling, concierge, and in-house catering. Their flagship facility, ICCS Toluca T2 (MMTO), located near Mexico City, exemplifies the next generation of private aviation in Mexico, offering expanded capacity and a seamless travel experienc

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WrestleMania Vegas

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WrestleMania Vegas

Las Vegas has always known how to throw a party. But every April, when WWE descends on the city with its full weight of spectacle, storylines, and 60,000-plus roaring fans, even Sin City raises an eyebrow. WrestleMania is back in Las Vegas for the second consecutive year, and the city is ready to deliver something even bigger than before. WrestleMania 42, billed as WrestleMania Vegas, takes place on Saturday, April 18, and Sunday, April 19, 2026, at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.

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Air Ambulance Charter: Health Care Up High

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Air Ambulance Charter: Health Care Up High

Charter aviation (at least for human passengers) is usually associated with two endeavors – work, and play. The smaller jets popularized by corporate clients and the airports specializing in them are widely described as comprising “business” aviation; however, no few customers hire them instead for leisure travel – sporting events, extreme adventures, family getaways and more. But, while jobs and vacations combined drive a lot of private jet travel, there is another growing category boosting demand – air ambulance charter.

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