USA3000 Airlines - Scheduled and Air Charter Flights

Callsign: Getaway is an airline headquartered in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. It operates a fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft.

Brendan Airways d/b/a USA3000 Airlines was founded by Apple Vacations, a leading tour operator in the Northeastern United States. Apple was interested in bringing a charter airline "in-house" so they could control crew morale, what aircraft they fly and service plans.

USA3000 Airlines operating certificate reads "Brendan Airways". However, for all marketing purposes the airline is USA 3000 Airlines; all planes, crew uniforms, ads and websites read so. The airline provides meals and movies from drop-down LCD screens on all flights. TSA Registered Traveler Program for frequent fliers

Air Charter

While the Airlines specialize in selling transportation by the seat, air charter companies focus on small groups for specialized itineraries, urgent / time sensitive freight or cargo, air ambulance and any other form of ad hoc air transportation.

Generally speaking, air charter is also known as air taxi, executive charter, jet charter and more broadly as private aviation. In the United States air charter / air taxi is governed by Part 135 of the FARs (the Federal Aviation Regulations), unlike the larger scheduled airlines, which are governed by more stringent standards of Part 121 of the FARs, which are regulations designed for scheduled air carriers.

It is believed that over 70% of the private air charter in the world is within the United States, the largest market for private aviation globally.
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Beginning in the late 1990's the air charter interest moved into main stream media and discussion with the growth and advent of several key factors:

Very Light Jets or VLJs popularized the concept of small affordable jets that would bring the capital carrying cost of aircraft down enough so that many more could be sold and operated. Eclipse Aviation is perhaps one of the most well known new aircraft brands, however notable veterans such as Honda have entered the space, with the HondaJet. While the air taxi debate centers around whether these aircraft will actually contribute to change, the mere discussion, media coverage and excitement over new technology is bringing more and more attention to the concept of ad hoc air transportation. Cingular Wireless

Internet Communication: Because air charter was never part of the major major GDS or travel distribution systems, it could not reach wider audiences. With the advent of the Internet, distribution of information regarding the availability of aircraft, placement, pricing etc., became more available to the increased broker and buyer community. Discount Michelin Tires

Problems: Growing dissatisfaction with the scheduled airlines over security and congestion related delays. While not all airline passengers could afford alternatives, the upper echelons of airline passengers sought was to stop flying commercially or exploring corporate aviation, fractional or air charter.

Alternatives: Air Charter and its cousin Fractional Ownership popularized the notion of private aircraft use and ownership. Fractional aircraft ownerships growth led to the advent of a distinct set of regulations in the United States designed specifically to regulate fractionally owned aircraft companies.

These new regulations are spelled out clearly in Part 91 Subpart K and bring fractional aircraft operations into line with existing air charter regulations, making fractional ownership into simply another flavor of ad hoc air transportation.

 
Aircraft manufacturers, such as Eclipse Aviation and Adam Aircraft Industries, and others maintain that the construction of cheaper, smaller and faster jets will enable inexpensive point-to-point private aviation, creating a new industry. Others maintain that these new aircraft will lower the barriers to ownership enabling more wealthy individuals to own jet aircraft, but will not result in their wide adoption for commercial applications. Critics argue that basic economics, demographics and operational constraints will automatically limit the birth of an air taxi industry.