One trip record, from the request to the owner statement
Charter operators rebuild the same trip four times: in the quote, the schedule, the invoice and the owner statement. It should be built once.
A charter trip gets built four times. Once in the quote. Again on the schedule, with crew and catering. Again on the invoice. And once more, weeks later, on the owner statement. Each copy is typed by hand, and each one can drift from the others. At the volumes operators are flying now, that is a lot of drift: fractional and charter operators recorded over 43,000 flights in a single week this July.
The quote is where the drift starts
Block time, positioning to and from base, daily minimums, landing and handling, crew overnights, the 7.5% federal excise tax and segment fees. If the quote is a template in a document, one of those lines is wrong by the time it is sent, and the mistake follows the trip all the way to the owner.
One trip, one source of truth, from request to payout.
“Part 135 also grew by 2%, but Part 91 dropped by 1.1%.”
GlobalAir.com, reporting ARGUS figures for North American business aviation, June 2026
Charter is growing while private flying shrinks, which means more paying clients, more owners expecting statements, and more trips for the office to keep straight.
Clients, crew and owners are all asking the office
The client wants to know who is flying and what is catered. The crew wants the itinerary. The owner wants to know what the aircraft earned last month. All three calls land on the same person, who answers from three different files.
The owner statement is the last to be built, so it is the last to be right
Revenue share per aircraft, the trips that flew, the costs that came off the top. Done by hand at month end, it is late, and a late statement is the first thing an owner complains about.
What a single trip record changes
- The quote is priced from current industry rates by jet class, and every line is editable before it is sent
- The client accepts and pays, by card or wire, and the legs land on the trips page with crew attached
- Clients, crew and owners each sign in and see only what is theirs
- The owner statement is issued from the same record the moment the trip is paid
Sources
Your team, your clients, your crew and your owners. One trip record.
Sable Charter quotes at industry rates, takes the booking and payment, puts the legs on the trips page with crew attached, and issues the owner statement the moment the trip is paid.
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