How many people can travel on one aircraft?

Business jets carry up to twelve to nineteen depending on type. Above that the answer is a regional airliner or a VIP narrowbody, chartered from an airline, seating anywhere from about fifty to well over a hundred. Between nineteen and fifty, two business jets are often faster and land closer to where you are actually going.

How far ahead should we book for a group of thirty?

Weeks rather than days, and more in peak season or around a major event. The constraint is rarely the aircraft: slots, stands, handling capacity and crew rostering at both airports are what run out first. Give us the dates, the passenger count and the baggage picture as early as you have them, even if details will change later.

Can our equipment fly with us?

Usually, if we know about it early. Send weights, dimensions and quantities — hold door size limits length as much as volume limits total load. Lithium batteries, compressed gas, pyrotechnics and drones are dangerous goods, approved case by case by the operator or refused, and carnets for professional equipment need arranging before departure, not at the aircraft.

What do you need from us for a medical or repatriation flight?

The patient's location and destination, the treating doctor's contact and a fit-to-fly assessment, whether a stretcher, oxygen or intensive-care equipment is required, and who is travelling with the patient. The medical provider supplies the team and equipment and makes every clinical decision. We source the aircraft and coordinate ground ambulances, permits and handling at both ends.

Services

Group & specialized travel

Pets, medical flights, sports teams and tricky routes — no problem.

Some trips aren’t standard — and those are the ones we’re best at. Large groups, sports teams and touring parties, corporate roadshows, film and production crews with heavy equipment, government and delegation travel: we source aircraft with the right cabin, payload and range, and coordinate the logistics so everyone and everything arrives together.

We also handle the sensitive and the specialised: medical and repatriation flights with equipment and staff on board, pets travelling in the cabin, and routes into airfields most brokers won’t touch. Whatever the requirement, we plan it quietly, properly and to the letter.

What’s included

Large-group and full-cabin aircraft for teams and delegations
Corporate roadshows, tours and multi-leg itineraries coordinated end to end
Medical and repatriation flights with equipment and medical staff
Pets in the cabin and other special-cargo requirements
Access to challenging airfields and non-standard routings

How it works

Above about nineteen seats, everything changes

A business jet tops out around twelve to nineteen seats. Past that the aircraft is a regional airliner or a VIP-configured narrowbody, chartered from an airline rather than a business-aviation operator, and the whole trip changes character. It needs a stand rather than a general-aviation apron, steps or an airbridge, a handling agent with the staff to turn it, and slots at both ends. Ground time stretches from twenty minutes to something closer to an hour.

It also closes airports. Cannes-Mandelieu, Sion, Samedan and London City are business-jet fields; an airliner sends you to Nice, Geneva, Zurich and Stansted instead, and the group finishes the journey by road. That is the trade worth making consciously. For thirty people going somewhere with a short runway, two midsize jets often beat one airliner — same day, right airport, two arrival times to manage instead of one.

Cabin crew, catering and the volume of thirty people's bags

Crew numbers follow the aircraft, not the booking. On airliner-category aircraft the rule is one cabin crew member per fifty passenger seats installed, so a 50-seat regional jet carries one and a VIP narrowbody carries several. On a business jet a flight attendant is standard from the midsize class upward and optional below it — for a group of ten on a four-hour leg, ask for one.

Catering is ordered against a manifest and a deadline set by the caterer, usually the day before for anything beyond a standard tray. Send dietary requirements, allergies and religious requirements in writing, with names, and send them early. Then the part groups forget: baggage volume. Thirty passengers with checked bags is a payload and hold-volume question before it is a seat question, and it is the number that decides between two aircraft. Give us bag counts and anything oversized at the enquiry stage, not at check-in.

Teams, film crews and the things that are not luggage

Sports teams travel with equipment that has shape as well as weight: bikes in cases, poles, kayaks, medical and physio kit, ice chests. The hold door dimensions decide as much as the hold volume, so send lengths, not just a weight total. Plan the return leg with the same care as the outbound — after a fixture the departure time moves, and a team that misses the slot waits for the next one.

Film and production crews bring a different problem: paperwork. Camera and lighting packages usually move under an ATA carnet, which customs at both ends will want to see; lithium batteries, pyrotechnics, compressed gas and drones are dangerous goods and are approved case by case, per operator, or refused. A crew that sends a full equipment list with weights, dimensions and battery watt-hours a week ahead flies as planned. One that describes it as fifteen cases at the airport does not.

Medical, repatriation and pets — and the real lead times

Medical flights are the fastest-moving work we do and the most tightly defined. An air ambulance needs a stretcher-configured aircraft, oxygen, the medical team and equipment from a specialist provider, and fit-to-fly clearance from the treating doctor — the clinical decision is theirs and never ours. Bed-to-bed coordination with ambulances at both ends is part of the plan, not an extra. What sets the earliest realistic departure is usually the medical provider and the fit-to-fly assessment rather than the aircraft. Repatriation of the deceased runs on documents instead, and the paperwork, not the aircraft, sets the date.

Pets in the cabin are decided per operator and per aircraft, and separately by the destination's import rules — the United Kingdom in particular requires the flight to be arranged in a specific way, which we confirm with the operator before quoting. Lead times, honestly: a business jet for ten at a few days' notice is normal; an airliner for thirty in peak season is a matter of weeks, because you are booking slots and parking as much as an aircraft.

What this service is not

An airliner for 20+ people closes the small fields. If Cannes, Sion, Samedan or London City is the point of the trip, two business jets beat one large aircraft.
We are not an air ambulance provider. The medical team, the equipment and the clinical call belong to a specialist provider and the treating doctor; we source and coordinate the aircraft.
Pets are the operator's decision and the destination country's, not ours. A refusal is not a price negotiation, and no tail can be talked into it.
Same-week charter for thirty in August or over a major sporting weekend is rarely realistic — at that size you are booking slots, stands and handling, and those run out before aircraft do.

Frequently asked questions

How many people can travel on one aircraft?: Business jets carry up to twelve to nineteen depending on type. Above that the answer is a regional airliner or a VIP narrowbody, chartered from an airline, seating anywhere from about fifty to well over a hundred. Between nineteen and fifty, two business jets are often faster and land closer to where you are actually going.
How far ahead should we book for a group of thirty?: Weeks rather than days, and more in peak season or around a major event. The constraint is rarely the aircraft: slots, stands, handling capacity and crew rostering at both airports are what run out first. Give us the dates, the passenger count and the baggage picture as early as you have them, even if details will change later.
Can our equipment fly with us?: Usually, if we know about it early. Send weights, dimensions and quantities — hold door size limits length as much as volume limits total load. Lithium batteries, compressed gas, pyrotechnics and drones are dangerous goods, approved case by case by the operator or refused, and carnets for professional equipment need arranging before departure, not at the aircraft.
What do you need from us for a medical or repatriation flight?: The patient's location and destination, the treating doctor's contact and a fit-to-fly assessment, whether a stretcher, oxygen or intensive-care equipment is required, and who is travelling with the patient. The medical provider supplies the team and equipment and makes every clinical decision. We source the aircraft and coordinate ground ambulances, permits and handling at both ends.

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