Who we are
India Private Jets arranges private charter flights to and from India, from Delhi and Mumbai to the Gulf, Europe, Southeast Asia and anywhere else your trip needs to go. We are a US-based private air charter broker, headquartered in the Philadelphia region, with team members and affiliates around the world, and we have been arranging private flights since 2012. Someone answers the phone at any hour, on any day of the year.
Our clients fly to India for many reasons. Some are executives with meetings in Mumbai, Delhi or Bengaluru. Some are families flying home for Diwali or a wedding, or wedding parties heading on to Rajasthan or Goa. Others are flying out of India to Dubai, the Maldives or Europe. Tell us the dates, who is traveling, where you are going and what everyone is bringing, and your advisor will find the aircraft, check the operator and look after the details until you land.
What we arrange
Most of our work is on-demand charter. You have the whole aircraft for your trip, and we arrange it with the operator from start to finish. We also arrange:
- Group charter for families, wedding parties and company travel
- Aircraft sales and acquisition for clients considering ownership
- Aircraft management for existing aircraft owners
- Air cargo charter for time-critical freight
- Non-emergency medical transport for passengers who need medical support on board
Flying into and around India
Most international private flights arrive at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International or Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International, and both have separate facilities for private aircraft. Mumbai is one of the busiest airports in the country and parking for private aircraft there is limited, so we plan the arrival time and where the aircraft waits.
Flights between two Indian cities are flown by Indian charter operators certified by the DGCA, India’s civil aviation authority. Udaipur and Jodhpur are domestic airports, so international guests heading to a wedding there clear in at Delhi, Mumbai or Jaipur first.
From Delhi, Dubai is about 1,200 nautical miles away and London about 3,650; from Mumbai, the Maldives is about 900. The routing and any fuel stop for a long trip are confirmed with the operator before you book, and the runway an aircraft needs is calculated by the operator for that day’s conditions, which we also confirm with the operator.
Who we work with
Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them. Wyvern is an independent aviation safety organization that audits how brokers work and keeps records on operator safety, and holding that membership means our own practices are audited too. Before we send you any options, we confirm the operator’s certification, look at their safety and incident history, and check that the pilots are experienced and current on the aircraft type they will be flying.
We work with FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or the foreign equivalent. Part 135 is the FAA’s set of rules for on-demand, for-hire charter, and it carries stricter operating, crew, and insurance requirements than FAR Part 91, the rules for private, non-commercial flying that cannot be sold as charter. In India, charter operators hold a DGCA non-scheduled operator permit, the Indian counterpart to those rules. When your total passenger count outgrows a heavy jet and the group consists of more than nineteen passengers, the aircraft required would fall into regional airliner, or airliner-size. These trips would no longer fall under the FAR Part 135 standards but possibly operate under FAR Part 121 or foreign equivalent standards. Part 121 and equivalent generally carry stricter crew and operating requirements than FAR Part 91 and FAR Part 135.
We have also been a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) since 2012.
Get a quote
Call 1-888-987-5387 or send us the trip details, and we will come back with options. To see how we review the operators behind every trip, read our India charter safety page, and for the aircraft we arrange, see our aircraft guide.