Who's flying you, exactly.
Aircraft get the photographs; crews decide the outcome. These are the pilot minimums behind every JetNine flight — written, audited annually, and re-checked before each booking.
Two ATP-rated pilots, in-type, on every flight.
The Airline Transport Pilot certificate is the FAA's highest — the same license the airlines require of a captain. Both seats on a JetNine flight hold one, and both pilots are rated on the specific aircraft type they're flying, not just the class.
3,500 hours minimum for the pilot-in-command. 1,500 in-type.
The second-in-command holds a 2,500-hour minimum. For context, an airline first officer can be hired at 1,500 total hours — our SIC floor exceeds it, and our PIC floor more than doubles it. Preferred operators field PICs above 5,000 hours.
Both pilots current on the aircraft within 90 days.
Currency is checked at the operator level during the annual audit and again at the trip level before every booking — along with duty-time limits, so a crew that's legal on paper but fatigued in practice doesn't fly.
No exceptions for daylight, short-leg, or VFR conditions.
Minimums that flex with the weather aren't minimums. A twenty-minute repositioning hop in clear skies is crewed to the same standard as a transatlantic night crossing — and legs over 8 hours block-time get an augmented crew on preferred operators.
Pilot qualification is one line of a seven-part floor — certification, audit standing, insurance, maintenance, safety record, and operator stability are published on the safety standards page, and the process that enforces them is on operator vetting.
— Asked about crews
Who verifies the pilot records?
The operator's rosters, training records, and type-rating proofs are reviewed in the annual document audit, and Wyvern Wingman runs pilot-specific qualification checks at the trip level for missions that require it. Duty time and currency are confirmed before every booking.
What is an ATP certificate?
The Airline Transport Pilot certificate — the FAA's highest pilot certification, required to captain a scheduled airline flight. Both pilots on a JetNine mission hold one; many charter operators only require it of the captain.
Do these standards apply to empty legs too?
Yes. An empty leg is the same airframe, the same operator, and the same crew standard as a full-price charter — the discount comes from the repositioning economics, never from the safety floor.
The crew standard rides on every quote.
Price a mission — the airframes that come back already meet everything on this page.