Private aircraft, arranged properly.
We are a brokerage, not an airline. We source the aircraft, verify the operator, and show you the numbers — then a certificated Part 135 carrier flies the trip. Departing from anywhere in the country, to anywhere an operator is authorised to fly.
YAJ Jet Charter is an air charter broker. It is not a direct air carrier and holds no operational control of aircraft. All flights are operated by properly licensed FAA-certificated Part 135 air carriers.
No cost, no obligation. Send us the trip and we’ll come back with aircraft options and all-in pricing. You decide from there.
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Fewer people between you and the aircraft
More than a decade arranging charter — for businesses, for friends, and for my own family with my own family on board. I’m a pilot as well as a broker, so I read an operator’s certificate and an aircraft’s limitations with the same eye I read a quote.
A broker who’s been in the seat
Cabin width, baggage volume, how a light jet actually feels on a four-hour leg rather than how it reads on paper. Sizing the aircraft to the mission is where most trips go wrong, and it is not something you learn from a comparison chart.
Operators I won’t use
Vetting is only worth something if you’re willing to act on it. Operators that have given me reason to worry — maintenance, crew, how they behave when a trip goes sideways — don’t get quoted to you, whatever the price.
You’re not paying for a sales floor
Large brokerages carry sales teams, offices, and marketing budgets, and that overhead lives inside the number they quote you. I carry none of it. You see the operator’s price and my fee as separate lines, so you know what the flight costs and what I make on it.
Small on purpose
No call center and no handoff to an account manager you have never spoken to. The person who quotes your trip is the person who confirms the tail, sends your departure details, and answers the phone when something moves.
What you can check yourself
Every line below can be verified without asking me for anything.
- Pilot FAA certificated private pilot Listed in the FAA airmen registry
- Entity YAJ Services LLC · Michigan YAJ Jet Charter filed as an assumed name with LARA
- Background Owner-operator, multiple Michigan businesses Over two decades running companies, not a first venture
- Charter More than a decade arranging trips For businesses, for friends, and for my own family
- Disclosure Part 295 disclosures on every quote Carrier named, capacity stated, insurance position given in writing
- Independence No commission from any operator Written into the agreement you sign
How a trip comes together
Four steps, every time. You will know the aircraft, the operating carrier, and the all-in cost before a contract goes in front of you.
Tell us the trip
City pair, dates, times, passengers, baggage. Pets, skis, and golf bags change the answer, so mention them early.
We source options
Quotes requested from certificated Part 135 operators whose aircraft suit the mission and whose crews are current for it.
You see everything
Aircraft type and tail, the operating carrier's legal name, its safety audit standing, and the total cost including fees and taxes.
Confirm and fly
Charter agreement, payment, then your departure details: FBO, tail number, crew, and timing ahead of the day.
Two numbers, not one
Almost every charter quote you will ever receive is a single figure with the broker’s margin already inside it. There is no requirement to disclose that margin, and industry estimates of it range from roughly 5% at the honest end to 30% on peak routes or where a trip passes through more than one intermediary. You cannot see it, so you cannot compare it.
One number. The aircraft, the operator, the fees, and the broker’s cut, blended together. Compare it against another quote and you still cannot tell whether the difference is the airplane or the margin.
Two figures, both shown in writing before you sign anything. The operator’s price is exactly what the operator charges — I don’t mark it up, and my fee sits on its own line beside it.
Illustrative figures for a midsize jet on a Pontiac–Sarasota round trip. Real quotes vary by aircraft, date, and routing.
The fee schedule, in full
| Operator charter price | Advisory fee | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Under $20,000 | 9% | $14,000 trip → $1,260 |
| $20,000 to $50,000 | 7% | $35,000 trip → $2,450 |
| Over $50,000 | 5% | $80,000 trip → $4,000 |
| Minimum fee, any trip | $750 | applies below $8,333 |
Smaller trips take the same hours as large ones, which is why the rate declines rather than staying flat. Expect the fee to land between 5% and 9% of the operator’s price. It is calculated once, on the price quoted to you, and does not move if costs are adjusted after the flight.
No membership. No card. No minimums.
Nothing to join, no annual dues, no deposit sitting with anyone, and no tier of inventory held back from you because you did not buy in. Fly once in five years or six times a year — the fee schedule above is the same either way, and there is nothing to cancel if you never fly again.
Nothing from the operator
I take no commission, rebate, or referral payment from any carrier, and it is written into the agreement you sign. That matters because a broker paid by the operator has a reason to prefer the operator paying most, and you would never know.
You see what the operator charged
Payment comes through me and goes to the carrier, the way charter has always worked. What’s different is that you see the carrier’s number and my fee as two separate figures, rather than one total with the margin folded invisibly into it.
The paperwork shows its work
Before you commit you get the carrier’s legal name, its certificate and audit status, its insurance limits, the full cost including taxes and fees, and an estimate of anything you will pay third parties on the day.
Matching the mission
Category drives cabin size, range, and cost far more than any particular tail number does. Figures below are typical for the class; real performance varies with load, weather, and runway.
| Category | Typical aircraft | Seats | Typical range | Suited to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turboprop | King Air 350, Pilatus PC-12 | 6–8 | ~1,500–1,800 nm | Short legs, short runways |
| Light jet | Phenom 300, Citation CJ3 | 5–7 | ~1,800–2,000 nm | Regional business travel |
| Midsize | Citation XLS+, Learjet 60 | 7–9 | ~2,000–2,400 nm | Transcontinental with a stop |
| Super-midsize | Challenger 350, Citation Longitude | 8–10 | ~3,000–3,500 nm | Coast to coast nonstop |
| Heavy | Gulfstream G450, Falcon 900 | 10–14 | ~4,000–4,500 nm | Atlantic crossings |
| Ultra-long-range | Gulfstream G650ER, Global 7500 | 12–16 | ~7,000–7,700 nm | Nonstop intercontinental |
The cheapest seat is an aircraft already going that way
When a charter finishes, the aircraft usually has to fly home empty, and the operator pays for that either way. Sell that leg to someone travelling the same direction and everyone is better off. Discounts on repositioning legs commonly run 30% to 60% below the equivalent charter rate.
Tell me a route and I’ll watch it
I don’t publish a live inventory feed, because the ones you see online are mostly stale by the time you click. What works better: tell me where you want to go and roughly when, and I’ll raise it with operators whose aircraft move that way. If something comes up, you hear from me. If nothing does, you hear nothing. No list, no newsletter, no obligation.
Trips chartered by the principal of YAJ Services LLC, shown for illustration.
Two ways to find them
An aircraft already scheduled to reposition, which you fit into. Or a trip of yours that creates one, where I work the return leg with the operator so the empty flight isn’t wasted. The second is where the better pricing usually sits.
What you give up
Flexibility. The route and the window are set by someone else’s trip, and if that trip moves or cancels, yours moves with it. Empty legs suit travellers who can shift a day or drive an hour to a different airport.
Told to you up front
If a quote is a repositioning leg, it says so, and it says what that means for your trip. A discount presented as a normal charter is how people end up surprised at 6am, and I have been on the receiving end of that more than once.
If it does move
You are told as soon as I know, with time to decide. Where the aircraft or the operating carrier changes, the disclosures are reissued before you fly, and you keep the right to cancel and be refunded if that notice comes too late.
What gets checked
A broker's only real product is the quality of the operator it puts you on. This is what we confirm before an option reaches you.
Part 135 certificate
Verified current, with the specific aircraft on that carrier's certificate and the flight inside its authorized operations.
Safety audits
ARGUS rating, Wyvern registration or Wingman status, and IS-BAO registration where the operator holds them.
Insurance
Operator liability coverage and limits confirmed in writing before any charter agreement is signed.
Crew and fit
Two-pilot crew, currency, and experience appropriate to the airport, the aircraft, and the day's conditions.
Why a pilot reads a quote differently
Hundreds of hours in the left seat doesn’t make me a charter pilot, and I don’t pretend otherwise. What it means is that I have filed the flight plans, talked to controllers, watched weather turn a straightforward trip into a different one, and waited at an FBO for fuel that was slower than promised.
So when an operator says the crew is running out of duty time, or the winds mean a fuel stop, or the runway at your preferred airport is marginal for that aircraft, I know whether that is real or whether someone is managing me. That is worth more to you than anything on a comparison chart.
Required disclosures
YAJ Jet Charter is an assumed name of YAJ Services LLC. It is an air charter broker. It is not a direct air carrier or direct foreign air carrier and does not own, operate, or hold operational control of any aircraft. All flights are operated by carriers holding the required economic authority from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the required safety authority from the Federal Aviation Administration.
We act as agent of the charterer. We are not an indirect air carrier and do not buy air transportation for our own account to resell. Before you contract a flight we disclose the operating carrier's corporate name, the capacity in which we are acting, and our liability insurance position, which is set out below. On request we also disclose any business relationship between us and the operating carrier that may bear on our selection of that carrier, the total cost of the transportation, and any broker or carrier fees and government taxes included within it.
Insurance and operational control rest with the operating carrier. Every flight is flown by an FAA-certificated Part 135 air carrier that holds operational control and carries the liability insurance covering passengers, baggage, and the aircraft. We confirm that coverage and its limits with the carrier and pass them on to you in writing before you sign anything.
YAJ Jet Charter does not itself hold liability insurance covering charterers or passengers. We do not operate aircraft, employ crew, or make dispatch decisions, so schedule changes, delays, diversions, and cancellations rest with the operating carrier under the terms of its charter agreement. Our responsibility is to place you with a carrier that meets the standards set out on this page, and to tell you precisely what you are buying before you commit to it.
Photographs on this page are of aircraft chartered by the principal of YAJ Services LLC and are shown for illustration. They do not depict aircraft owned, operated, or controlled by YAJ Jet Charter.
Start a trip request
Send the city pair, the dates, and how many are travelling. If the trip is time-critical, say so in the first line and call rather than email.
For Lasco Ford, Grand Blanc Mitsubishi, or Lasco Real Estate Group matters, please contact those businesses directly.
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Fenton, Michigan. Trips arranged anywhere an operator is authorized to fly.