When choosing an aircraft charter company, it's essential to establish whether the charter company you are considering meets the optimum safety specifications possible.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) performs a lengthy certification process before ever granting a jet charter provider the authority to fly the general public. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration has continual oversight of the operator during annual base inspections, through conformity inspections for adding new aircraft to the certificate, and through semi-annual checks of the pilots. Most charter operators strive to reach a greater safety standard than that regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration. For example, the FAA requires that captains have 1200 hours of flight experience. Nearly all providers have a minimum standard of 2500 hours and the very best operators require somewhere around 5000 hours of experience.

Several institutions have formulated industry-wide safety requirements for jet charter operations to help unify these standards. They are ARG/US (Aviation Research Group/US), Wyvern, the Air Charter Safety Foundation and also International Business Aviation Council (IBAC).

ARG/US is perhaps the most well-known of these aviation safety standards organizations. They rate charter organizations under the following categories; DNQ (does not qualify), Gold, Gold Plus and also Platinum. A Gold provider meets the basic ARG/US safety requirements. The Gold Plus status is given to an operator that meets the basic specifications and also has participated in either an ARG/US audit of its business and procedures or has received IS-BAO registration. The Platinum designation is awarded to those operators that satisfy the fundamental safety standards, pass the on-site audit and additionally have both a Safety Management System and an Emergency Response Plan in place.

Wyvern has long been respected in the charter market for its high requirements. The Wyvern Standard includes such requirements for the charter pilots as a minimum of 4000 hours of flight experience with certain other flight time requirements connected to actual time in type of aircraft. Wyvern publishes the Pilot and Aircraft Safety Survey (PASS) review on request that indicates whether the operator, crew and aircraft you have decided on satisfy either a basic safety standard or meet the Wyvern Standard. Those providers that pass Wyvern's strict audit procedures become Wyvern "recommended". The phrase "recommended" is the only phrase that signifies the jet charter provider has met Wyvern's increased standard.

The Air Charter Safety Foundation aims to promote safety standardization throughout the charter industry. The ACSF Industry Audit Standard was made with the input and guidance of leading safety auditors, charter services, shared aircraft ownership companies and charter consumers.

One standard encompasses worldwide jet charter standards - the IS-BAO, which stands for International Standard of Business Aircraft Operations. This particular code of best practices was introduced by the International Business Aviation Council and has been widely adopted as the gold standard for company aircraft procedures. It has been supported by the NBAA (National Business Aviation Association) as well as multinational organizations worldwide. Audits are not offered from the organization, but rather by unbiased, third party auditors who are certificated by the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC).

Be sure that the aircraft charter operator you might be thinking about meets at least one, if not even more, of these standards.

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