"Denny" wrote in message
ups.com...
First, let me also add good luck..
Second, do you know there is a bidding site on the web for charter
runs? Your customers know about it... You do have competition (oh boy
do you) and it may be 3000 miles away, but they will be competing for
your clients, offering LearJets and Turboprops at or below your cost
for a piston plane... How can they do that? Simple, they have a run
from A to B at full price - a run you can't do at the cutomers
requirements because you can't match their speed and weather topping
abilities... They can then deadhead back to A, or they can offer to run
"your" job at less than your operating costs because it puts them
closer to being back to A...
Now, if you are single, don't mind sleeping in your plane and eating
out of a paper bag, then you MAYBE can survive in the charter
business...
Do your homework, and again, good luck my friend...

denny


Myself being someone that has been a successful entrepreneur for about 16
years now I say if the guy has an idea run with it if he can financially
support a start up. Some times taking chances and breaking in to something
like aviation is hard but once you weed out all the A** Holes, Riff Raff and
get your name out there, there is money to be made in aviation. If he has
never done a start up before he will learn fast on how to tap all resources
you can! Wait until I obtain my CFI this summer and start a Flight School I
already have my hand in Uncle Sam's pocket and he likes to give resources to
the aviation industry.

Steven L. Rhine
CP- Airplane Single & Multi Engine Land
Instrument Airplane
CFI Student
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