What do you mean by chartered flight? What's the difference between chartered flight and scheduled flights? -How to choose a return flight?

When you fly back to China, you can also choose a flight. There are chartered flight and scheduled flights at present. If there are no scheduled flights, you can choose to try chartered flight, but there will definitely be some shortcomings. You can compare it.

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What are chartered flight and scheduled flights? What is chartered flight? If we search, we can only get such an explanation: the unit or company that chartered the plane applied to the airline, signed a chartered flight contract to charter the plane of the airline, and flew on a fixed route according to the agreed departure time, voyage, passengers and cargo.

Scheduled flights refer to scheduled flights with fixed model, date and time according to the prescribed routes, also known as scheduled flights, which are the main operating forms of airlines.

That is to say, the chartered flight we met on our way home today was actually chartered by some organizations (travel agencies or professional chartered flight businessmen) to sell the whole airline route or the whole plane on a specific date.

In fact, chartered flight has been lurking around us for a long time. Many domestic airlines that you think are regular scheduled flights are actually chartered flight, but people don't feel it when they pay for their air tickets.

What's the difference between chartered flight and scheduled flights? Because chartered flight has been lurking around us, we have no feeling. Why do you want to identify chartered flight on the way back to China? I just want to go back to China. What's the difference between buying chartered flight and regular flights?

The biggest difference between chartered flight and scheduled flights is that scheduled flights can be sold on GDS system, but chartered flight can't.

When I return to China at ordinary times, I often contact some large foreign airlines, all of which are scheduled flights. For example, AA, UA, EK and Lufthansa can all be queried and booked on GDS system. Most agents help their compatriots return to China by issuing tickets through the system.

AA 127, scheduled flights

However, air tickets in chartered flight are controlled by chartered flight operators, so they cannot be booked freely in GDS system. It can only be purchased through different channels (air ticket agent and online and offline) designated by chartered flight company (chartered flight company or travel agency).

Although consumers buy through "air ticket agents", in fact, one is from airlines and the other is from chartered flight operators.

If in normal times, we don't need to care too much about whether it is chartered flight or not, as long as we pay and the tickets are confirmed, it makes no difference to consumers.

Important reminder: 2020-202 1 is not an ordinary year! Due to the tide of returning home, there is a great difference between chartered flight and scheduled flights, which even affects the success or failure of returning home!

Why are there so many chartered flight returning to China?

I don't know if you have noticed that many of the popular routes we usually talk about are actually chartered flight. Recently, the most popular ones are Muscat-Guangzhou of Oman Airlines, Tehran-Guangzhou of Mahan Airlines and Tashkent -Xi 'an of Uzbekistan Airlines. These three hot spots are actually chartered flight!

As for the large number of flights coming back from the Philippines, they are basically chartered flight.

Then why are there so many chartered flight, and all of them are foreign airlines?

1. Because domestic airlines comply with national regulations, they can only sell directly, through APP, official website, telephone, etc.

2. Compared with direct sales, chartered flight operators have many sales channels, and they can also face agents and individual customers at the same time, which is very flexible. The joint efforts of airlines and chartered flight operators are a win-win situation for them.

3. From the point of view of sales, direct sales is far less than multi-channel sales "profit maximization", so in order to obtain more benefits, foreign airlines have started to chartered flight, especially those in developing countries.

4. It's not that domestic airlines don't want to engage in chartered flight, but the policy doesn't allow it, which is also the best regulation made by our country to let our compatriots come back.

Who should I choose for domestic chartered flight and scheduled flights? 1, price comparison.

In terms of price, chartered flight is generally more expensive under the same premise. After all, capitalists pursue the maximization of interests, and usually the result is to let consumers pay the bill. However, the current situation of returning to China is special, and many domestic airlines have to brush their tickets because they can't get tickets through direct sales, thus raising prices. However, several major foreign airlines set high prices directly according to market demand. In this way, the price of returning to chartered flight is almost the same as that of regular flights.

2. Position comparison

As long as compatriots who want to return to China should know, they can only consider high-priced direct flights from foreign airlines (such as several major airlines in the United States). In contrast, the location of chartered flight is generally abundant, because air tickets can be bought through various channels, and it is common to miss them. Unless it is really popular in chartered flight (such as Teheran-Guangzhou), air tickets are generally not difficult to buy. It seems that there are quite a few chartered flight who have returned from the Philippines, and they can really return to China at any time.

Oman Air chartered flight

3. Stability comparison

For scheduled flights, airlines are responsible for their own profits and losses. Sometimes, seeing that they are going to be blown away from their own interests, or finding that the next flight loses blood for various reasons, airlines often make a big move: cancel the flight! Stop flying! Even empty! It can be said that anything can be done in order not to lose money. Chartered flight is completely different. No matter how many passengers there are on the plane, the airline will fly as usual, because it has already received money from chartered flight Company! If the flight is not satisfied, the loss is borne by the chartered flight operator, and there is basically no cancellation problem. As long as the navigation rights are stable, it will definitely fly unless it is unlucky to encounter a fuse. (Of course, it is not excluded that some profiteers sell tickets to collect customers before the air rights come down, which has happened in the Philippines before. )

4. Comparison of flight requirements

Generally speaking, airlines with scheduled flights want to accept customers as much as possible, so as long as they meet the requirements of the China Embassy, such as getting a green code and double negative results, they can basically board the plane, and the scheduled flights are more relaxed than chartered flight in terms of testing. But chartered flight sometimes gets stuck in the test because he loses one person and loses one.

For example, WY85 1 of Oman Airlines and W508 1 of Mahan Airlines added an IgG negative requirement on the basis of the requirements of the China Embassy. This makes many compatriots who have been vaccinated feel embarrassed. Fortunately, they can basically solve the problem now.

Another example is chartered flight, which basically focuses on unified hotel inspection.

5. Service comparison

From the service point of view, chartered flight is generally more considerate than scheduled flights, and there is often a one-stop service. For example, Oman Air's WY85 1 has provided a series of services, such as airport pick-up, hotel, inspection, airport delivery, etc., which are included in the ticket price, and Mahan Airlines is similar (only recently blown up). Chartered flight is a five-star hotel, and it is also a worry that there is a designated agency to conduct unified inspection.

However, there are also some scheduled flights that provide transit guidance services. For example, Air China has specially launched transit products in Copenhagen, including double inspection and special guidance, which is still very good.

6. Oversold problem

The biggest problem in chartered flight is oversold! Because the pressure of chartered flight's profit and loss lies with chartered flight people, basically chartered flight will oversell, and in order to "maximize profits", chartered flight oversold is much more ruthless than airlines. It is said that it is normal for Tashkent return flights to oversell 30 people!

As for scheduled flights, oversold will be much less. Sometimes in order to keep social distance, not all seats are sold out. Therefore, from the perspective of safety and no accidents, scheduled flights are far better than chartered flight.

Finally, to sum up with you: at present, because the price disadvantage is offset by market demand,

All chartered flight has certain advantages over scheduled flights. However, because there are too many chartered flight, and many chartered flight people who are "without martial arts" will oversell or fiddle with the air rights, so don't buy them yourself. The final suggestion is: first find out the situation in chartered flight, ask the business people clearly, and then make a move. After all, chartered flight is relatively easy to buy.