A charter flight can be an official government flight when the customer is a government, yet it is not mandatory.
A State can choose, while chartering an aircraft to keep its status as a regular commercial flight, or to apply the status of official government flight.
Yet, official government flight status does not have the exact same meaning in every country, and consequently remains subject to cautiousness.
We are working on a daily basis with airlines able to launch a flight on a very short notice, enabling us to provide in most urgent cases a first proposal in the hour.
For some specific destinations, local authorities permissions are mandatory (such as trafic rights), and would be the bottleneck, yet, in most cases, the aircraft will be able to take-off within two hours after your confirmation, either to join your starting point, or for your trip if it is already in place.
The exact same regulations is applied on commercial flights as well as charter flights.
Yet, these regulations are depending on each country.
For instance, in Europe and the US, the minimum third party liability are quite high, regardless of the operating carrier. While for some other countries, this has to be studied case-by-case, considering the routing and the operating carrier.
It is important to know that for non European or American domestic flights, international minimums defined by Warsaw Convention and Montreal Convention are not always enforced.
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Contrary to commercial flights where each booking as to be linked with the identity of each passenger, a charter flight enable to book the flight only based on the expected number of passengers and / or volume and characteristics of the freight (size, dangerous goods, animals, etc…).
Exact number of passengers as well as their details and / or the freight details has to be confirmed a few days before the flight, and can be amended up to the last minutes before take-off.