FAR PART 135 CHARTER TODAY OFFERS A COMPLEX VARIETY of buying options that seem to cross over into scheduled operations. If you buy an "empty leg" of an existing charter flight, is that a scheduled flight? How can you possibly buy a seat on an "on-demand" flight? The most black-and-white of the gray areas is the sale of "empty legs." Charter operators who know that they have a long repositioning flight would like to have some portion of the flight earn revenue. As long as any or all of the trip elements of departure time, departure location and arrival location are negotiated with the customer, the flight is "on demand."
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