Even with all the benefits air charter provides, not all operators can or will meet consumers’ specific wants and needs. NBAA’s updated Aircraft Charter Consumer Guide can help individuals and businesses become educated consumers.
The guide has been updated to incorporate the requirements of Department of Transportation (DOT) Part 295 that regulates the air charter brokerage industry, said Tim Sullivan, a member of NBAA’s Part 135 Committee. Historically, “other than some guidance material and occasional enforcement activity, DOT did not regulate brokers until it organized and expanded that guidance into the new 14 CFR 295 regulations that took effect on Feb. 14, 2019,” added committee member Aaron Goerlich,