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Summary: There are a few ways to rent a private plane, including finding someone at an airport who charters their own plane on a local level. Consider chartering a plane when thinking about renting private planes with advice from a travel agent in this free video on traveling in luxury.
Russ Handler owns an online travel agency, and he is a known travel expert in the Tampa Bay area who has been featured as an expert on travel for decades on local television and radio...read more
"Hi, everyone. I'm Russ Handler, travel expert. We are on location here at Albert Whited airfield in wonderful St. Petersburg, Florida. And you know, renting a private aircraft is a lot easier than you thought. There's a couple ways that you can do it. Number one, you could come to an airport and you could find somebody who actually charters their own plane on a local level. You could get on the Internet and find out who will allow you to rent or charter their plane. But keep in mind, there's a couple distinctions. Number one: you could rent the aircraft, and when you do that, that means that you rent the aircraft, and, you have to supply the crew as well as the pilot. Not a very economic way to do it, unless you just got a lot of money to throw around. But the biggest trend, and the best suggestion, is to charter an aircraft. This is done, quite simply, by paying one simple, flat fee and getting everything you need. Now, by everything you need, I mean, you could go to "the sky is the limit" or the "bare bones", but, chartering an aircraft does get you a pilot and in many cases a crew, and many comfortable things to do on the plane. I'm Russ Handler, and that's how you do it."
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