Kentucky Jet Charter arranges relief flights for aid organizations, companies and public agencies, carrying response teams and supplies from Kentucky to places where a disaster has cut off normal travel.
Flights for teams, supplies, or both
Relief work often begins where airline service has stopped or never existed. We arrange passenger flights for response teams, cargo flights for supplies and equipment, and flights that carry a team together with its own gear. Aircraft range from small turboprops for a handful of people to larger jets for bigger teams, and freighters when the load is the main thing that needs to move.
Planning for the airport at the other end
The airport you are flying into often decides which aircraft can do the job. After a storm or an earthquake, a runway may be damaged or partly closed, and fuel may be hard to find. The operator has to confirm what the aircraft can do there on the day of the flight. Your advisor will check with the operator what is open and work through the options with you before the aircraft is committed.
Tell us what is in the load
When you first call, give us the weight and size of the shipment and tell us whether any of it is classed as dangerous goods. Generators, fuel, batteries and some medical supplies all need special handling, and not every operator is set up to carry them. Knowing this early helps us go straight to the operators who can take the work.
Storms near home and relief work abroad
Kentucky sees ice and snow in the winter and strong thunderstorms in the spring, and neighboring states face the same weather. When a storm hits nearby, we can arrange flights out of Louisville, Lexington, Northern Kentucky and the regional airports at Bowling Green, Owensboro and Paducah. For relief flights abroad, landing permits are applied for once the trip is booked and paid, and the receiving country’s authorities can change their requirements at short notice during a disaster. When the shipment is the priority, start with our air cargo charter page.
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.