Structure fit
Which way of flying actually fits you?
Four questions, and you get an honest read on which structures are plausible for your flying and which are not — plus the variables that decide between them. No email required to see it. TRH sells none of these structures.
60hours / year
Band: 50–200 hours
How much lands on peak dates?
How far ahead do you know?
What horizon can you commit to?
Your read — 50–200 hours
- Fractional leaseFits
Squarely in the band. You get guaranteed access and committed economics without buying the asset or carrying its residual.
- CharterWorth modelling
Rarely the cheapest at this volume, but it remains the baseline you should price the committed structures against — and it carries no term risk.
- Jet cards & membershipsWorth modelling
Usually beaten on hourly economics at this volume by a lease or a share, unless you need the flexibility a card's shorter horizon buys.
- Fractional ownershipWorth modelling
In band on hours, but a share is bought on a multi-year view. Without a long horizon, a lease usually does the same job with less capital at risk.
- Whole aircraftUnlikely
Well below the volume at which carrying an aircraft, crew and maintenance reserves is justified by use.
What actually decides it
- Peak-day exposure. Some of your flying lands on restricted dates, so the definition of a peak day and the number declared is worth checking before anything is signed.
- Fixed cost you can spread. The hours number only tells you how much there is to spread fixed cost across. Two people flying the same hours on different routes, aircraft and dates land in different places.
This is a direction, not a verdict. Published hour thresholds disagree by a factor of two or more, and every one of them was drawn at the edge of something the publisher sells — here is where they disagree and why
Why this is a direction and not an answer
Every published hour threshold was drawn by someone selling one side of it. Charter brokers stretch cards upward; fractional providers pull shares down. None of it is dishonest — each line sits at the edge of a product. Hours are a proxy for the only thing that matters, which is how much fixed cost you can spread across your actual flying.