Midsize jets are where Martha’s Vineyard clients move once the trip stops being a short regional hop, with a stand-up cabin and the range to cross most of the country without stopping.
Midsize Jets We Arrange from Martha’s Vineyard
Every aircraft in this category has its own page with cabin, range, seating and a charter pricing reference. 11 are listed below.
- Cessna Citation Excel / XLS
- Cessna Citation III
- Cessna Citation VII
- Embraer Legacy 450
- Falcon 20
- Gulfstream G100 / G150 / IAI Astra SPX
- Hawker 750
- Hawker 850XP
- Hawker 900XP
- Learjet 55
- Learjet 60
When Midsize Jets Fit the Martha’s Vineyard Trip
Martha’s Vineyard to Dallas, Houston, Denver and Aspen all fit the category. Once you are more than a couple of hours in the air, cabin size starts to matter as much as speed, which is usually what moves people up from a light jet.
The runway required on the day is a performance calculation the operator makes for that aircraft, at that weight, in the conditions on your date, so we confirm it with them for your specific trip rather than working from a general figure.
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.
Martha’s Vineyard Patterns We Plan Around
Martha’s Vineyard Airport is the island’s only airport, so the choice most clients are really making is the aircraft and the timing rather than the field. The main runway is 5,504 feet by 100, with an ILS approach to runway 24, and there is a second runway of 3,327 by 75 feet in fair condition. Whether a particular aircraft can use either on your date is a performance calculation the operator makes, and we confirm it with them rather than assuming it.
Aircraft with more than nine passenger seats need twenty-four hours’ prior permission, which covers most midsize and larger charter jets. Your advisor makes that call, and it is the reason we ask for your dates as early as you can give them. The same rule at Nantucket asks for two hours, so if you are booking late and either island would do, that difference usually decides it.
The tower keeps two sets of hours: six in the morning until ten at night from the middle of May to the end of October, and seven until five in the afternoon from the first of November to the middle of May. That winter close is earlier than most people expect and it is worth checking an off-season itinerary against it. There is no customs on the island, so an international trip clears on the mainland first, and Cape Cod Gateway Airport at Hyannis is the nearest customs landing rights airport.
Contact
Call 1-888-987-5387 or request a quote and we will come back with aircraft that fit the trip. The phone is answered at any hour, on any day of the year. For how we review the operator behind every flight, see our safety page, and for the full fleet see our aircraft guide.