Chapman Freeborn Launches Global Broker Initiative for Expanding Private Jet Market
Summary
The company, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this month (May 2013), is responding to demand from the emerging markets for private jet charter - particularly India, Russia, Brazil, Africa and China – by formalising existing ad-hoc arrangements to support partner brokers.Partnering companies will be able to call on Chapman Freeborn’s global buying power and close relationships with operators and airlines worldwide, as well as its ability to secure good credit terms.From a regulatory perspective too, China is still heavily regulated and that is a process that needs to be understood.” Alex Berry is leading this initiative for Chapman Freeborn drawing on 15 years’ dedicated experience in business aviation.However, they will quickly discover a completely different set of challenges tasked with arranging a flight from, say, Malawi to Peru.“Time and time again we have seen customers suffer a bad experience because their broker simply didn’t have the local knowledge.This is where we can make the difference and add value to the broker and most importantly to the customer,” added Berry.Alex Berry also highlighted that China likes to charter wide-bodied, long range business jets.