For business, airport transfers, leisure or sports events, in fact anytime you need speed, convenience and style, an easily arranged professional helicopter charter is the answer.

Helicopter Charter

Helicopter Charter delivers Value, Flexibility and Service
Direct from city heliports
All-weather and night capability
Land at hotels, sports venues and private sites
Rapid transfer from airports to city-centre
A helicopter will take your party from a city heliport to a peripheral airport in 12 minutes rather than hours in rush hour road traffic; from there to a fixed wing flight abroad or direct to your destination within a few hundred miles. It is the best way to fit an evening engagement in with a full work day.

For weddings, treats and anniversaries the memorable excitement of arriving by air, direct to the venue is priceless.

Aviastra offers a wide choice of helicopters to suit all purposes.

Charter or Scheduled?

When you hire an aircraft you hire the whole aircraft, every seat and every inch of baggage space, all yours to use at no extra cost. With enough people in the group a private charter will often work out cheaper than a business or first class ticket for everyone individually.

And of course, charter of your own aircraft brings a range of advantages. You have your own schedule, privacy to relax or conduct business, more streamlined and civilised security arrangements, bespoke catering, personal attention from start to finish and careful co-ordination of transport at the beginning and end of your charter.

Sometimes choosing a scheduled flight is the sensible choice. We will always tell you when we think this is the case.

As well as providing the very best in service and aircraft, part of our work on your behalf is to secure the most competitive prices possible.

Tremendous savings can be made by making use of “empty legs”. Aviastra maintains a real time and worldwide database of charter jet locations and we compare every flight request to check if these savings can be passed on to you. With a good match of requested routes up to 50% can be saved for an otherwise identical flight compared to those not making use of this highly efficient and cost effective system.

How it works…

Charter aircraft must have costs covered for all sections of a flight, even if the aircraft is empty on its way to pick up passengers or returning to base after the passengers have reached their destination. Clearly then there are lots of aircraft flying around empty that have already been paid for! If a second party of passengers are able to make use of these empty flight sectors, then fantastic savings can be made.

The closer the match of the required flight to that already being flown the greater the discount.

Flight managers are available around the clock if you have questions about this system or if you have a flight enquiry you would like to match up.

Key advantages of empty legs:

• Up to 50% savings can be made
• The route required does not need to exactly match that shown as available
• Flights are available on a range of days
• Well over a thousand sectors are on our database at any given time
• This is not aircraft sharing – for your flight it is your aircraft

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and the great world of private flight!

Chartering your own aircraft is very straightforward.

If you’re new to private charter and not sure of the process, this guide explains each step.

• Deciding to charter in the first place
• Choosing between broker and operator
• Getting price quotes
• Going ahead
• Confirmation and Agreements
• Payment
• Receiving Flight Packs and other paperwork
• The flight itself

Remember, at any time before your flight, or even while you are at your destination, you can call us with questions or changes you need to make.

Deciding to charter in the first place

Charter flight has many advantages over scheduled airline flying. This is not airline flying; it’s so much better, it’s all about you and tailoring your flight around you in every way. Have a look at “Why Charter” and see the difference.

Yes, you can consider owning an aircraft but that only makes financial sense if you fly upward of 500 hours per year. Jet cards are available but they require up -front payment of very considerable sums. Even fractional ownership has its drawbacks – share the aircraft and you have to share the availability, not to mention being restricted to one type of aircraft.

Charter is the ultimate in service and flexibility without commitment.

Choose between Broker and Operator

Operators actually own and fly the aircraft. Some are big companies, others are privately owned single luxury aircraft. All will operate under a fully approved Air Operators Certification regulated by the national authority.

Brokers act as a pool of expertise, choice, information and experience.

You can book directly with the aircraft operator or book through a broker. Both systems work but you should be aware that each operator will restrict you to the particular aircraft types that they use and your costs will be dictated by their location as much as the route you fly.

A good broker will offer you unbiased advice on a worldwide choice to exactly suit you and your journey. Going through a broker should not cost you anymore; in fact with Aviastra you will routinely pay less.

Request a quote

Don’t feel that you have to know exactly what you want at this stage, although it’s fine if you do! You can get in touch by phone or by email, fill out the yellow flight enquiry form or requesting a call-back.

Aviastra Flight Managers will always be happy to chat with you about different options, aircraft, routes and other services to help us make sure you get the best out of your charter and your budget. We can give you a very good estimate of the cost immediately and for straightforward flights you can have a firm single price offer usually within the hour and supply these by email or over the phone as you prefer.

Going ahead

Aviastra can arrange flights lightening fast if you required but otherwise there is no rush and we are available at any time to answer questions and show you different options. We hope most of the information you need on this website but please don’t hesitate to contact us at any time if we can help.

We will take you through the very simple process of booking and and provide you with all the information you need on where to find your private passenger agent at each airport and what to do at every step. Actually you don’t need to do very much – just relax and enjoy the privacy, convenience and speed of private charter!

Aviastra Flight Charter is all about service and flexibility. Call us at any time with questions, changes or requests – we are here to help.