With 2024’s sports calendar showing no signs of slowing, we look at chartering for sports; helping to ensure your team arrives rested and reinvigorated for each and every fixture.
Charter for team sports – top aircraft for the upcoming season
With 2024’s sports calendar showing no signs of slowing, we look at chartering for sports; helping to ensure your team arrives rested and reinvigorated for each and every fixture.
The impact of a collective mindset for team sports is well-documented. Chartering and traveling as a combined unit of both players and support staff not only helps to mitigate the breaking of a focused mindset, it encourages deepening of bonds between the players. Flying privately ensures tactic confidentiality, and with a captive audience of the entire team, it presents the perfect time to reflect on the positives and negatives of play, ensuring players arrive galvanized, ready to play.
Practicalities
Physical size is an important consideration for athletes – taller frames are commonplace in sport, whereas extended legroom on scheduled flights is rare. A number of the aircraft at our disposal have extended legroom (some specially configured with this in mind), making the journey more comfortable for basketball and volleyball teams alike.
With a maximum payload of 7,500lbs, there is more than enough room for all of the team’s equipment to travel with them. As commonplace with charters, aircraft regularly operate into smaller regional and municipal airports, meaning that we can often get teams much closer to their final destination; running to your schedule, charters are more efficient, and maximize the time you get to spend on the field before the fixture.
Customization
Our Charter Concepts team ensure that you and your team have everything you may need on board. Whilst dry snacks and soft drinks are complementary, there is scope to serve the specialist nourishment your athletes need to be on top form when they land.
Suggested aircraft
The below suggestions are good for short, regional hops, having a three-hour fly time depending on final payload and weather conditions. (All hold 30 passengers, however, the Saab 2000 and CRJ200 were designed to carry approximately 50 passengers, its reconfiguration means that there’s more space for athletes to kick back, relax, and recoup pre-game.)
With a number of major seasons fast approaching, book your charter sooner rather than later to avoid disappointment; start the season with an advantage, chartering your preferred aircraft on your favored schedule.