Private jet charter, from the operator.

Hiring a whole aircraft and its crew for your own trip: your schedule, your choice of airports, and nobody else on board. Private jet rental is the same thing. You pay for the aircraft's time, not by the seat. With CRAFT, the aircraft is one of our five Challenger 300/350s and the company you book with is the one that flies you. Operated by CRAFT CHARTER, LLC, an FAA Part 135 air carrier.

On a CRAFT Challenger, about $25,900 as an estimate: two flight hours at ~$12,950 an hour, including 7.5% FET and repositioning. Airport, handling and segment fees are confirmed in the quote, which replaces the estimate with a firm number. Across the market, a 2-hour flight depends mostly on jet size.

Private jet cost per hour, by jet size →

Fill the seats, fly the smallest aircraft that makes the trip nonstop, avoid peak days, and be flexible on time so the operator can use an aircraft already nearby. Empty legs can price well below a normal charter but fly on someone else's schedule. If you fly 25 hours or more a year, a jet card fixes the hourly rate in advance.

Private jet charter cost → · Fleet Jet Card →

Not through an airline checkpoint. You drive to the FBO (the private terminal), the crew checks your ID, your bags are loaded and you board. Arrive about fifteen minutes before departure. Flights abroad clear customs and immigration at an airport of entry.

It isn't expected: CRAFT's pilots are our own employees. If you want to thank a crew, a note to the charter desk reaches them.

There is no rate card, and an hourly number quoted before anyone has seen your trip is a guess dressed up as a price. Each quote is built against the itinerary itself: where the aircraft already is, how the crew duty limits fall, and what the airports charge at both ends. The same route can price differently on two different days for reasons that have nothing to do with you. Send us the trip and you get a firm number rather than a range.

Price a trip →

For charter there is no minimum. Book as far ahead as you can and you get more choice of aircraft and departure time, but short-notice trips are routine here rather than a favor. The Fleet Jet Card has three callouts: Planner (five days, base rate), Priority (72 hours) and Express (48 hours). Inside 48 hours, card trips fly as available.

Often, yes. Same-day departures are something we do rather than an exception we make, because we operate the aircraft ourselves: we can see where each one is and which crew is legal to fly it without calling anybody else to find out. If the trip is today or tomorrow, skip the form and call +1 (310) 848-3636, and you will get a straight answer quickly either way.

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CRAFT does. We hold our own FAA Part 135 certificate, operate the five Challengers, maintain them in house, and employ the crews who fly them. When you call, you are talking to the people who schedule the aircraft and crews.

North America, the Caribbean, and Central America, from our base at Opa-locka Executive Airport (KOPF) in Miami. The Challenger 300 flies about 3,000 miles nonstop and the 350 about 3,200, which covers the United States coast to coast without stopping. The aircraft can also use small airports, so you can usually land nearer to where you are actually going than an airline would take you.

Nine on a Challenger 300 and eight on a Challenger 350. A flight attendant takes a cabin seat, so a 300 with one on board seats eight. For a group larger than that we can put more than one aircraft on the same trip.

Payment is arranged directly with the charter desk once you have accepted a quote. There is no instant checkout on this site, and you should never send card or bank details through a form here. If you receive a message asking you to, it did not come from us.