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What is a charter flight

In order to understand the intricacies of the financialthe parties of flights by charter, it is necessary to begin to understand what is it. So, a charter flight is a deliberate booking by someone at a certain time on the right route. It is charter flights that usually transport schoolchildren to conferences, athletes to competitions, tourists to holidays and so on. Since the main customers are large travel agencies, they will better show all the subtleties of this business.

The main feature of a charter flight iscustomer risk. He pre-paid seats in the plane and so the pilots do not care how many people fly in the cabin - fifteen or one. Travel agencies, for example, usually book charters in bulk, based on flight statistics. For this wholesale sale of the airline discounts are made to travel agencies, which significantly reduces their financial costs.

The scheme is simple and understandable - the tour operator reservesairplane for a certain time, concluding an agreement with the airline. Sometimes all tickets for a charter go to this travel agency, sometimes some of them are sold to smaller companies or individuals.

More often than not, planes fly both on a charter and on a regular route, bring tourists to the resort, and the same group of tourists is taken away from it.

Features of charter flights for passengers

If everything is clear with travel agencies - charter flights give them as a guarantee that at the right time the plane will fly, and the risk that there will be nobody to fly, what benefits does the passenger have?

First, many resorts can be reached only by charter aircraft. For example, Antalya, Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh and most of the Greek islands accept only charter planes.

Secondly, it is profitable. As it is already clear, travel agencies buy tickets for a charter plane in bulk, and the airline does not make a difference how many people will fly in the cabin - after all, everything has been paid in advance. That is why there are often such situations when the tour operator tries at least in some way to refund its expenses for an unprofitable order and sells tickets at a good discount. So, a few days before the expected date of departure you can find cheap tickets on the site of any major travel agency or on the pages of companies that sell tickets for charter flights.

However, for the airline regular flights haveobvious advantage over charter. This means that if there are any problems in the schedule, first of all regular flights will be sent, and only then - charter flights. And the arrival time is usually inconvenient for the passenger. In hotels, the settlement usually occurs at 12-14 hours of the day, and because of this you can lose almost the whole day in anticipation.

Possibility to return the ticket

The most important question remains - is it possible to returntickets? After all, no one is immune from the fact that the trip will have to be postponed for some time or come back from the resort earlier than planned. If you bought tickets for a regular flight, the answer is obvious - yes, of course. If you pass the tickets in 24 hours, you will not lose anything at all.

However, with charter flights the situation isdifferently. You conclude a contract not with the carrier (airline), but with the travel agency. And they in contracts usually indicate that tickets for a charter flight are irrevocable. Of course, it is beneficial for the tour operator and it is not profitable for the passenger.

By the way, some foreign companies insure themselves in this way. Usually this happens during discounts on tickets.