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Four questions and an honest read on which structures are plausible for your flying and which are not — plus what decides between them. No email needed to see it.
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Independent Private Aviation Advisory
Independent counsel for private aviation decisions.
Charter, jet cards, fractional programs, and aircraft ownership. Advice grounded in how you fly — with no operator to represent and no product to move.
Flexjet · VistaJet · Jet Edge — prior roles, not client relationships.
A higher perspective on private aviation.
Currently flying in a contracted program
What are you actually paying per hour?
Not the quoted rate — the all-in number after fees, fuel variables, peak surcharges and the hours you never flew. Send the agreement before you renew.
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One mission, sourced and compared.
Send the route, dates, passenger count, and requirements. TRH will source and review the right aircraft for the mission.
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Compare them side by side- 01CharterBook a specific aircraft for a specific trip. No commitment between trips.
- 02Jet Cards & MembershipsPrepaid hours or a membership at defined rates and terms. Access, not ownership.
- 03Fractional LeaseAccess to a share for a set term without buying it or carrying the residual.
- 04Fractional OwnershipBuy a share of a specific aircraft, with guaranteed access on short notice.
- 05Whole AircraftOwn the aircraft outright — full control over crew, configuration, and availability.
Case study
$8.3M saved
against a binding five-year fractional agreement.
The client had already signed an LOI and wired the non-refundable $921,000 deposit towards the $4.7M upfront asset cost — on the wrong program, in the wrong aircraft, with the wrong annual hours. TRH was retained to get them out of it, and into a structure that matched how they actually fly.
Read the full case studyWhat TRH did
- Line-by-line contract forensics
- Modelled actual usage against contracted hours
- Handled every negotiation with the provider
- Recovered $460,500 of the non-refundable deposit toward their annual lease payment
- Negotiated hour flexibility and an upgrade path
- Quarterly pacing reviews and invoice audits
- Custom finance reporting in the client's own format
- 24/7 on-call trip support
What changed
Structure
Fractional ownershiptoFractional lease
Aircraft
Citation LongitudetoCitation Latitude
Super-midsize → Midsize
Annual hours
125 hrsto100 hrs
Term
60 moto36 mo
Upfront capital
$4.7Mto$250K
Security deposit, then waived against annual lease prepayment
Engagements
Four ways to work together.
Independent advisory
An independent private aviation advisor, on your side of the table.
Read more about Independent advisoryProgram review
A second opinion on what you fly today, and what it actually costs.
Read more about Program reviewFamily office advisory
Private aviation advisory for family offices.
Read more about Family office advisoryFlight department review
Corporate flight department and program review.
Read more about Flight department review
Insights
The research behind the advice.
Long-form guides on the structures, the contracts, and the economics — written from the buyer's side.
- 10 min read
How Many Hours Actually Justify Each Way to Fly
Every threshold you have read was drawn by someone selling one side of it. Here is where the published numbers disagree, why they disagree, and how to find the threshold that is actually yours.
Read the guide: How Many Hours Actually Justify Each Way to Fly - 18 min read
The Fractional Jet Contract: What Buyers Need to Review Before Signing
A fractional purchase is really a bundle of agreements governing five or more years of cost and access. This is a buyer-side map of the terms that matter — what each clause does, why it matters, and where the risk hides.
Read the guide: The Fractional Jet Contract: What Buyers Need to Review Before Signing - 12 min read
What an Independent Private Aviation Advisor Actually Does
Everyone in private aviation represents something — an aircraft, a program, a transaction. An independent advisor represents the buyer's decision. Here is what that means in practice, and when it matters.
Read the guide: What an Independent Private Aviation Advisor Actually Does
Founder & Principal
He sold these programs at the top of the industry.
Now he evaluates them from the buyer’s side.
For fifteen years Tyler sold the very programs he now evaluates — at Flexjet, Jet Edge, and VistaJet — after a start in finance at Morgan Stanley. He founded TRH to bring that experience to the other side of the table: advising buyers, with no product behind the advice.
Tyler Hults
Founder & Principal
Prior roles
- Flexjet
- VistaJet
- Jet Edge
- Morgan Stanley
Prior roles, not client relationships.
A conversation in confidence
A conversation before a commitment.
Tell us how you fly today. You’ll get an honest read on whether it still makes sense — and what would.