Kentucky Jet Charter arranges private flights for touring artists and their crews playing Louisville, Lexington and other Kentucky cities, and for fans flying in for a concert or a festival weekend.
Moving a touring party
A tour keeps a schedule that no airline is built around. The show ends late, the next city is a long drive away, and the band and the crew need to get there with time to rest. A charter lets the whole party leave together after the show and land at an airport near the next venue.
When you call, give us the headcount and a list of the instruments and gear traveling with the party, because equipment often takes up more room than the people do. If the production gear is too large for the passenger cabin, we can arrange a separate cargo flight for it.
Louisville’s fall festival weekends
Louisville’s big fall music festivals take place on the Kentucky Exposition Center grounds. Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is the city’s main airport, and Bowman Field is the smaller airport closer to the middle of the city. Tell us where you are staying and which days you plan to attend, and we will confirm with the operator which airport works for your aircraft. With enough notice, we can also arrange a car to meet you through a third-party vendor.
Planning around a busy fall calendar
A festival weekend can land on the same dates as a University of Kentucky or University of Louisville home football game, or a Keeneland sale in Lexington, Kentucky. Tell us about the trip early so we can plan the airport and the timing, and we will firm up the quote closer to the date.
Groups larger than a heavy jet
FAR Part 135 is the FAA’s set of rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. Once the group runs past nineteen passengers, the trip calls for an airliner-size aircraft and no longer falls under FAR Part 135. Those flights operate under FAR Part 121 or a foreign equivalent, which generally carries stricter crew and operating requirements than both Part 91 and Part 135. Our VIP airliners page shows the larger aircraft we look at for a full band and crew.
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.