PrivateJetSky / Partner standard
The standard comes first. The partner comes second.
This page exists before any partner does. That order is the entire point: a standard written after a deal is a description of the deal, and everyone reading it knows that.
If you ask our desk for an introduction, we intend eventually to point you at a brokerage and, if you fly, to be paid a referral fee out of that brokerage's margin rather than out of your price. That arrangement is common and it is fine, as long as two things are true: you know about it, and it cannot buy anything except the introduction itself. The first is handled on the disclosure page. The second is handled here.
CURRENT STATUS
No partner is listed, because no agreement is signed. There is no logo wall, no "coming soon" row, and no placeholder waiting to be filled. Until a brokerage has met the criteria below, requests for an introduction are handled by hand from the desk, and we will tell you plainly that no commercial relationship exists yet. The bar does not move to fill the page.
What a partner must do
The first four criteria are not our invention. They are what a US air charter broker already owes a customer under federal rule, which makes them a floor rather than a favour, and makes a broker that resists them a broker with a problem.
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Name the operating carrier before you contract
The corporate name of the direct air carrier that will hold operational control, in writing, without being chased for it a second time.
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State the capacity it is acting in
Indirect air carrier, agent of the charterer, or agent of the carrier. The three put its duties to you in different places and you are entitled to know which one applies.
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Disclose its own liability insurance and the limits
Separately from the operator's cover. Disclosing an absence of cover is an acceptable answer to the rule and an important answer to you.
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Quote all-in, itemised
Total price including federal excise tax and segment fees where they apply, with positioning, minimums and surcharges shown as lines rather than absorbed into a round number.
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Put the cancellation schedule in writing, unprompted
Before funds move, not after. A cancellation ladder that only appears in the contract you sign at the end is a ladder designed not to be read.
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Disclose relationships that could steer carrier selection
If a particular operator pays better, we expect that to be visible to the customer who asks, and we will ask on your behalf during vetting.
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Accept that placement is never for sale
No brokerage can pay to appear here, to rank above another, or to influence any number this site publishes. A partner that offers to is disqualified by the offer.
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Accept re-checking, and removal
Passing once is not passing permanently. If the standard stops being met, the listing goes, and we would rather have an empty page than a quiet exception.
What a partnership can never touch
- The computations. No estimate, ranking, verdict or band on this site is influenced by a commercial relationship. The equations are published precisely so you can verify that claim rather than take it.
- The audit. If we sign a partner whose own website quotes prices, the Quote Audit stays exactly as blunt about their quotes as it is about everyone else's. A partner's number gets no adjustment, no exemption and no softer language.
- The free route. Every tool works to the end without us. You are always able to take the brief we generate to your own broker, and we will keep saying so on the page where the introduction is offered.
If you are a brokerage
The route in is the criteria above, evidenced rather than asserted. Write to hello@plainforge.com with your certificate posture, a sample all-in quote with the tax and fee lines visible, your standard cancellation schedule, and your answer to criterion six. We are not looking for the largest network. We are looking for the one that answers questions in writing.
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