Kentucky Jet Charter arranges private flights for family offices in Louisville, Lexington and Northern Kentucky. A family office often books a wider mix of trips than a company does, and the person arranging them is looking after a household as well as a calendar.
One household, many kinds of trips
In a single month, a family office might book a principal to a board meeting in New York, the whole family to Florida for spring break, and relatives flying in from out of state for the Kentucky Derby. Staff and luggage sometimes go ahead on a separate flight, and pets can come along as well. You work with the same advisor each time. We keep the family’s preferences on file, from aircraft size to catering and ground transportation, so a new request picks up where the last one left off.
Keeping the family’s travel private
We give passenger names and travel plans only to the operator and the crew who will fly the trip. Privacy is often the first thing a family office asks about, and we take it seriously on every booking.
When the family aircraft is out of service
Some families own an aircraft. When it goes in for scheduled maintenance, or a mechanical problem grounds it while the family is away from home, we can arrange a chartered aircraft of a similar size so the trip can go ahead, subject to scheduling and aircraft availability. If you set up the arrangement with us in advance, that call becomes a short one.
Deciding whether to buy an aircraft
If the family is considering buying an aircraft, we can help with that as well, since we work on aircraft sales and acquisition alongside charter. A year of chartering gives the family a clear record of how often it flies, how many people usually travel and how far they go. That record is a good place to start the conversation about what size of aircraft makes sense, if any. You can compare the cabin sizes on our passenger aircraft pages.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Kentucky-Specific Patterns We Plan Around
Kentucky’s busiest weeks follow the racing calendar. The Kentucky Oaks and Derby fill Louisville on the first weekend of May, and Keeneland’s spring and fall meets and its horse sales bring owners and buyers into Lexington, so those dates book first, and the FAA manages arrivals into the Louisville airports during Derby week. The rest of the year, flights leave the state for business, for Florida in the winter and for family vacations. Most Louisville trips use Louisville Muhammad Ali International or Bowman Field, Blue Grass Airport in Lexington sits across the road from Keeneland, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International in Hebron serves the north of the state, and Bowling Green, Owensboro and Paducah cover the south and west. Ice and snow in the winter and strong spring thunderstorms are the weather we watch most often.
Contact
For a quote on a Kentucky charter, send the trip through our contact page or call an advisor at 1-888-987-5387. Our safety page sets out how we review operators and crews, and the aircraft gallery covers every category we arrange. We are also a member of the National Business Aviation Association.