Private carriage or Common carriage?

[Jared_44]

I am surely not an expert in aviation and the regulations that engulf it, however, I have a good bit of experience. This topic of private v. common carriage is such a grey area I still have difficulties with 91/135 commercial or not all the time. A current dilemma that I am helping a friend with is through a local construction company...

The company owns their own seneca II, they often fly the executives all over the southeast (which usually consist of 2-4 people) However, he also transports workers of the company. Does this violate the private carriage and then become common? Or does this fall under the "coincidental to business" clause in the FARs?

forever confused in the web of aviation
jared_44

 

[A Squared]

Jared,

there's no problem with that. The company is not carrying persons or property for compensation, so no operating certificate is needed. It's essentially the same as a corporate flight department, the company is transporting it's own employees.