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What
are Charter Flights?
I've taken
charter flights a few times and can recommend them
if you are looking to save money and willing to put
up with the possibility of being inconvenienced.
For ease
of illustration, I will use Homeric Tours out of NY
who is one of the larger charter companies specializing
in travel to Greece. Homeric offers tours, cruises
and flights on commercial airlines to Greece. The
also offer Charters. They have set up a contract with
a company that owns the planes(last year it was North
American Air, before that TowerAir and they have a
new company that they lease the plane from this year-but
I'm not sure who it is).
Homeric
now has a plane-and they don't have to worry about
flying it or maintaining it-just getting people on
it). Their flights are scheduled to fly once a week
in each direction from June to August, but charters
can run as many times a week, or for the full year....depending
on the demand.
So that
is all a charter is.... a plane leased by a company
to fly to the destination of it's choice.
How
are charters different?
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