Jet Charter Costa Rica arranges supplemental lift for corporate flight departments whose executives travel to and from Costa Rica, for the times when your own aircraft is not available or the trip calls for something different.
When flight departments call us
- The aircraft is in for scheduled maintenance during a week when your executives have meetings in San José.
- An unscheduled mechanical leaves your passengers in Costa Rica, and they need a flight home.
- Two trips fall on the same day, and you have one aircraft.
- The trip needs more seats, more range or more baggage space than your aircraft has.
Bringing passengers home from Costa Rica
If your passengers are already in Costa Rica, tell us where they are and when they need to leave. Juan Santamaría International (SJO), in Alajuela, is open around the clock, so it is usually the more flexible place to collect a group late in the day. Guanacaste Airport (LIR) near Liberia is closer to the beaches but is not open overnight, which matters if the pickup runs late. We will look for an operator and an aircraft, subject to scheduling and aircraft availability, and send you the options to approve.
The sourcing you hand over to us
Finding a replacement aircraft takes time your department may not have that week. Someone has to locate the aircraft, check the operator, and get the booking through procurement, finance and legal. We take that work off your desk. We act as your agent, we do not own or operate aircraft, and every flight is operated by a certified operator.
Setting up the account early
The best time to set up an account with us is before your aircraft becomes unavailable. Send us your company details, your billing contacts and the routes you fly most, so the paperwork is already in place when you need an aircraft in a hurry. You can compare the aircraft sizes we arrange, from light jets to long-range jets, on our passenger charter page.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Costa Rica-Specific Patterns We Plan Around
A private flight from abroad lands first at one of Costa Rica’s international airports, most often Juan Santamaría International near San José or Guanacaste Airport in Liberia, which is the closer of the two to the Guanacaste beaches and is not open overnight. The flight on to a smaller beach or rainforest airstrip, such as Tamarindo, Nosara or Quepos, is a separate leg in a smaller aircraft, usually flown by a Costa Rican operator, and your advisor will tell you how that leg works for your trip. The busy season runs from Thanksgiving to April, when ramp space for private aircraft is limited, and the holidays, spring break and Semana Santa book up first. The dry season on the Pacific side runs from late November to April, and from May to November afternoon rain is common.
Contact
For a quote on a charter to or from Costa Rica, send the trip through our contact page or call an advisor at 1-888-987-5387. Our safety page sets out how we review operators and crews, and the aircraft gallery covers every category we arrange. We are also a member of the National Business Aviation Association.