Charter flights are flights that are organized not by airlines, but by a third -party organization, and therefore are not sent on a regular schedule. Typically, the customer is a tour operator who organizes a group tour for a certain period of time. Such flights are drawn up on the basis of a aircraft lease agreement between the airline and the client.
The customer can also be any major company that organizes a working event in another country for its employees.
The charter flight can be used at any time of the year in any direction, and often to places and resorts, where regular flights do not fly. To do this, they gain a group of passengers and only then rents a plane from the airline. You can book a group business trip using the OneTwotrip for Business service, crossing.
We will tell you more about the advantages, disadvantages and differences of charter flights from regular flights in our article.
What is the difference between a charter flight from a regular flight?
As mentioned above, the charter flight is carried out only with a sufficient number of passengers, and the ticket is issued on a flight day or even before landing. Tickets for charter flights are cheaper as the departure date approaches, since the tour operator needs to sell as many seats as possible to recoup the aircraft rental.
Unlike charter flights, regular flights are convenient in that the passenger pays and receives a ticket for a long time before the flight. Regular flights are also made according to a certain schedule, regardless of the season.
The significant difference also is that in all airports in the world there will always be regular flights in the priority. That is why charters often delay if there is no free “place” between regular flights.
Despite the disadvantages of charters, many choose this option, since the price for them is much lower than for regular flights.
Types of charter flights
There are several types of charter flights:
Shattl-charter Curses in two directions – delivers a group of passengers to the destination, immediately takes away other tourists and flies back.
Split-charter suggests a mixed type of flight, i.e. Part of the path passengers fly on a regular flight, the other is charter. Therefore, passengers of different groups fly together and with different goals.
Paul-charter It also requires transfers, but all flights are charter.
Time charter He brings passengers to the destination, waits for them and returns with the same passengers.
Charter airlines in Russia
Since charter is just a way of organizing a flight, such flights can operate any carrier. Airlines willingly accept orders, as this brings additional profits. Therefore, charter flights can be found in almost all airlines. Among them are Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, Victory, Russia and others.
In addition, there are airlines that are engaged in charter transportation. For example, iFly, Azur Air, Royal Flight, Red Wings, Nordwind Airlines and others.
Group booking tickets on OneTwotrip for Business
For your convenience, the OneTwotrip For Business service provides an option of group reservation. You can decorate it in one of the methods below:
- Fill in the form on our website in the section “Group transportation”.
- Send a letter to Groups@onetwotrip.com. The letter must indicate the following information:
- the number of passengers (if there are children under 12 years old and babies under 2 years old, you need to specify them separately);
- Direction (departure/arrival airport);
- flight dates;
- the purpose of the trip;
- preferences (airline, departure time, service class, baggage tariff/without baggage).
Our experts will contact you during the working day. The period of consideration of the group request depends on the air carrier and can be processed from 1 to 3 business days.
