Air Charter Guide recently spoke with Eduardo J. Marquez, CEO of Jet Connections, a private aviation company based in Miami, Florida, operating out of Opa-Locka Executive Airport (KOPF). Jet Connections specializes in private jet charter services, aircraft management, and customized aviation solutions. The company is known for its commitment to safety, operational excellence, personalized service and catering to a diverse clientele.
Read MoreNo film industry on earth is as closely tied to a single city as Bollywood is to Mumbai. The name itself, a blend of "Bombay" and "Hollywood," speaks to that relationship, and the Hindi-language film industry has grown into one of the world's most prolific, producing stars whose fame rivals anyone in Los Angeles. For the traveler, Mumbai offers something rare: the chance to experience a global entertainment industry in the city where it was born, where it is still made, and where audiences still treat a trip to the cinema as a communal event.
Read MoreBack in 2006, amidst the eagerly awaited arrival of the very light jet with Honda, Cessna, Embraer, Eclipse and other aircraft manufacturers trying to beat the race, The Air Charter Guide’s front cover advertiser was Blue Wings, a German airline offering adhoc group charter flights with an Airbus 320.
Read MoreAir Charter Guide recently spoke with Hinna Garcia of Universal Aviation Mexico, a key player in the global FBO and ground-handling network. Universal Aviation Mexico provides comprehensive services for passengers and flight crews, ensuring a seamless experience from arrival to departure. As part of Evans Aviation, Universal Aviation continues to expand its presence in strategic markets while maintaining consistent service standards across its global network.
Read MoreAs 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.”
Read MoreToday, 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.
Read MoreAir 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreAir 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreJet 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.
Read MoreLate 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
Read MoreIn 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.”
Read MoreGiven 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.
Read MoreEvery 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.
Read MoreAir 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.
Read MoreThere 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreAir 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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