Using a Broker to Purchase an Aircraft

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Why Should I Use an Intermediary Company to Purchase an Aircraft?

Using a Broker to Purchase an Aircraft

When you buy or sell a house, you go through a real estate agent. When you're considering buying or selling an aircraft, you can do it alone or use an aircraft sales broker. The advantages of working with a broker are significant. Brokers know the market, the current values of aircraft, the worldwide availability of various models, recent sales transactions and can negotiate on your behalf without the seller knowing your identity.

Brokers can also assist you in handling a simultaneous transaction of selling your current airplane, while buying a new model. This ensures that you are not left without air transportation, if that's important to you. They can also assist you by chartering you a plane before your new aircraft is ready to fly you.

Brokers have only one interest in mind, and that is yours. They act as your agent and will negotiate the best deal on your behalf. Since they do this for a living they can be much more effective than someone who only does this every once in a while.

   

Comments

8/16/2007 2:30:43 PM
Big Bopper said:

Brokers like Blue Star Jets are taking advantage of ignorant customers. Very few of their employees are even aviation knowledgeable or educated and most don't know the difference between a Hawker and a Cessna. The only thing they care about is jacking up the price of chartering other people's planes. As an example, they get a call from a clueless millionaire in Manhattan. They will call 5 companies that actually operate the planes (Bluestar operates none) and take the cheapest but charge the customer the most expensive. They will then try to find another customer to purchase any empty legs, thereby making more money. Additionaly, they do not inform the initial customer that they have sold a portion of the trip that they had already paid for. Double booking (double dipping) and crashing Challengers in Teterboro is the image of brokers to most people in the aviation industry.




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