Jet Charter Costa Rica arranges private flights for destination weddings, honeymoons and anniversary trips in Costa Rica, including Guanacaste and the Pacific coast.
Destination weddings in Guanacaste
For a wedding on the Papagayo Peninsula, in Tamarindo or elsewhere on the Guanacaste beaches, the closest international airport is Guanacaste Airport (LIR), about 8 miles west of Liberia. Weddings further south, around Manuel Antonio or the Central Pacific, may suit Juan Santamaría International in Alajuela better. If you provide us with the venue’s location, we will suggest the airport that gets your guests closest to it.
A wedding date in the dry season also falls in the busy season for private flights. Dates around Christmas and New Years, and over spring break, book up first, so we suggest reserving the aircraft as soon as the date is fixed.
Flying the wedding party and guests
A single charter for the wedding party is usually easier to manage than a long list of separate arrivals. Most private charter flights operate under FAR Part 135, the FAA’s rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. When your total passenger count outgrows a heavy jet and the group consists of more than nineteen passengers, the aircraft required would fall into regional airliner, or airliner-size. These trips would no longer fall under the FAR Part 135 standards but possibly operate under FAR Part 121 or foreign equivalent standards. Part 121 and equivalent generally carry stricter crew and operating requirements than FAR Part 91 and FAR Part 135.
Honeymoons after the wedding
Some couples stay on in Costa Rica and move to a rainforest lodge, Arenal or the Osa Peninsula for the honeymoon. The flight to one of those smaller airstrips is a separate leg in a smaller aircraft, and your advisor will tell you how that leg works for your trip. If the honeymoon continues to another country, landing permits and authorizations are generally applied for after a trip has been secured on the aircraft schedule.
Anniversary trips
Couples also come back to Costa Rica for an anniversary. Tell us the dates, the number of people traveling and where you are staying, and your advisor will put together options for the trip. You can look through the aircraft we arrange on our passenger charter aircraft 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.