The Business Case for Private Aviation

Your route, your team, your numbers. See what a year of charter really costs once the hours your people get back are priced in, then take a board-ready memo to the meeting.

Your travel profile

Start with your most common business trip. Every number is editable; the defaults are examples, not assumptions about your company.

Company name (for the memo)

Typical departure

Typical destination

559 nm each way

Travelers per trip

Round trips a year

Value of one traveler's hour

Fully loaded: salary, benefits and overhead divided by about 2,080 hours. Ground costs per traveler, per trip

Airport parking, rideshare, incidentals.

The airline schedule forces an overnight that a same-day private return would avoid.

Optional: business at risk from airline schedules, per year

Deals or meetings you have lost or nearly lost to timing. Leave at 0 if you would rather not say. It is reported separately and never added to the totals.

Your year, estimated

Close enough to justify a trial on your highest-value trips

After time value, charter carries a modest premium. A defined pilot on the trips where timing matters most will show whether the schedule control is worth it.

Hours recovered

187 hours

3.9 per traveler, per trip

Value of that time

$37,400

Charter, a year

$96,000 to $156,000

Very Light Jet

First class, all-in

$68,160

tickets and ground

After time value, the result runs from $9,560 a year ahead to $50,440 a year more, depending on the aircraft quoted.

Charter covers its cost on this route for groups of 7 to 8 travelers. You are sending 4.

Typical hourly ranges are estimates for planning only. Your quote depends on aircraft, routing, fuel and fees.

Get the board-ready memo

Your numbers, formatted for a board packet

Time is priced, not waved at

Hours recovered are multiplied by what your team's hour actually costs the company, using the number you enter, not one we pick for you.

The airline side is all-in

Tickets alone flatter commercial. Ground costs and the overnight a fixed airline schedule can force are counted too, when they apply.

Built to survive a skeptical board

Any revenue you say is at risk is shown on its own line and never added to the totals, so the recommendation stands without it.

The Scott Wallace Agency arranges charter service on behalf of clients with vetted FAA Part 135 carriers, verified through the Stratos Jets Approved Vendor Program. Per-trip pricing: no membership, no deposit.