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, and Tyler will tell you which clauses are moving your effective rate and whether the structure still fits how you fly. No charge, and nothing to buy at the end of it.
What you get back
- The clauses moving your effective rate
- Not a summary of the agreement. The specific provisions that put distance between the rate you were quoted and the rate you actually pay — escalation, the fee schedule, and whatever your structure buries in the variables.
- Which direction you are off by
- Whether your effective hourly sits materially above what you were quoted, or roughly where you would expect. That is usually the thing people are most wrong about.
- Whether the structure still fits
- Programmes get signed for how someone flew three years ago. An honest read on whether this one still matches how you fly now — and sometimes the answer is that it does.
What gets read
- Escalation
- What the annual increase is tied to, whether there is a floor, and what it compounds to across the term.
- The effective rate
- Everything charged on top of the quoted hourly — and what the real number becomes once it is all counted.
- Term and exit
- What you owe if circumstances change, what is refundable, and on what notice.
- Capital at risk
- What you have paid that is not coming back, and under what conditions it would.
- Availability
- What is actually guaranteed, how peak days are defined, and how many of them there are.
- Rate integrity
- Which charges sit outside the quoted hourly rate — fuel variables, FET, taxes, fees and surcharges.
- Who performs
- Whether the company you are paying operates the aircraft, or sources them from operators you never deal with.
What is not in the email
The exact number. Computing your true all-in cost per hour needs your flight history alongside the agreement — how many hours you actually flew, on which routes, on which dates. That is a conversation, not an email, and it is the part Tyler does properly rather than approximately.
This is the same first move behind the engagement that took a client out of a binding five-year fractional commitment and into a structure that matched how they actually fly.