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Private Jet Charter Glossary
I to Z

Instrument Approach to Zulu Time

Instrument approach:An airport installation that enables the aircraft to safely land in poor visibility. All commercial airports and all but the smallest general aviation aerodromes have at least one instrument approach. A private jet charter can be arranged to any licensed airport or aerodrome with a runway sufficient for the aircraft.
Jet cards:Schemes by which operators sell individuals block hours on their aircraft.
Leg:Each single, direct flight between two airports
Operator:The company that operates the aircraft, employs the crew and organises all aspects of the flight. All Charter Operators are required to hold an AOC.
Positioning flight:To fly an aircraft empty to a particular airport in order for it to be able to commence a flight from that airport.
Revenue flight:Any flight that generates revenue for the operator. i.e. not a positioning, crew training or maintenance flight.
Reposition:To undertake a positioning flight.
Sector:See leg.
Small cabin jets:Private jets built primarily for efficiency and lower cost of operation. A good choice for business travel and still afford plenty of luxury on shorter journeys. Browse small cabin jets.
Stand:The part of the tarmac on which the aeroplanes stand when idle, separate from the taxiways and runways. Many airports allow private charter customers' cars to be escorted to and from the stand for transferring passengers and luggage. If preferred, or where airport regulations prohibit passenger vehicles airside, the handling agent will transfer passengers and luggage in their own vehicles.
Stand-up cabin:A cabin designed for sufficient height to allow passengers to move around the cabin with relative ease. Typically taken to be a ceiling height of 5'8" or greater. Browse jets with stand-up cabins
Taxi time:The time the aircraft takes taxiing from the stand to runway on departure and from the runway to the stand on landing. Typically totals around 10 minutes per leg.
Technical stop:Landing at an airport en-route to the destination airport for technical rather than operational reasons, most typically to upload fuel if the total journey exceeds the range of the aircraft.
Turbo-prop:An aircraft that has propellers driven by gas-turbine engines
UTC:Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The abbreviation is a compromise between the French language term Temps Universel Co-ordonné and the English language equivalent Universal Co-ordinated Time.
VLJ:Very Light Jet. A new breed of aircraft, smaller than conventional small jets, with lower acquisition and running costs.
Waiting time:The time that the crew and aircraft must spend on the ground waiting for passengers to return to the airport on a multi-leg trip.
Zulu time:UTC or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The aviation convention is to append the characters Z to times written as UTC and L to times written as local time. In the phonetic alphabet, Z is pronounced Zulu.

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