Any suggestions?

[s0ldier93]

I take it that will be hell for a company like Cape Air. www.flycapeair.com. They have something like fifty 402's.

 

[bryrex]

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[getonit]

Here is my .02 worth. Most 135 operators don't own the airplanes, they are managing them for the owners. I don't think you can make money owning and chartering an aircraft unless you have very high utilization. You need someone to make the payments. I would find someone's aircraft you could manage and fly (didn't look at your qualifications) and then work on getting the airplane onto someone else's certificate and then if you really want to work hard, start the process for your own 135 certificate, which should take some time at which point, hopefully, you have a reputation as an honest, safe, reasonable businessman first. My opinion is that too many people in aviation are airplane people first and businessmen second, sometimes far second and that shows in the lousy customer service that I have gotten.

 

[s0ldier93]

getonit-

So basically lease an aircraft, get it and a pilot or two added to someone else's 135 cert, then fly customers that way? . . . . hhhmmmm. . . . Do the FAR's allow for more than one business name to be used on a cert? Or would I have to operate under the name of the 135 cert owner? I will be going back through 119 and 135 as soon as my brain can handle it again, but I think I read something saying there could be more than one business name on a cert. Thank you for the advice.