Private Jets Colorado arranges flights for musicians, touring crews and fans heading to concerts and festivals in Colorado, from summer shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in June.
Flying a band between tour dates
A tour keeps its own hours. The band finishes one show late at night and needs to be in the next city for a sound check the following afternoon, and no airline flies that routing at those times. With a charter, the whole party leaves after the encore and travels together, on a schedule built around the performances.
When you send us the tour dates, please include the gear as well as the headcount. Instruments, cases and merchandise fill a baggage hold quickly, and the load often settles the size of the aircraft. If the staging and production equipment is moving on its own, we can arrange that as a separate cargo flight.
Large touring parties
A private charter for a band flies under FAR Part 135, which is the FAA’s set of rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. Once the group runs past nineteen passengers, the trip calls for an airliner-size aircraft and no longer falls under FAR Part 135. Those flights operate under FAR Part 121 or a foreign equivalent, which generally carries stricter crew and operating requirements than both Part 91 and Part 135. Centennial limits aircraft to 70,000 lb maximum takeoff weight, so the larger airliners use Denver International.
Flying in for the show
Red Rocks sits in Morrison, west of Denver, and for a show there we usually look at Centennial or Rocky Mountain Metropolitan first. Telluride’s airport has a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., so if you want to leave right after the last set, the flight will either wait until morning or depart from another airport, such as Montrose.
Tell us the venue and the times you would like to arrive and leave, and your advisor will suggest the airport that suits the day. If a well-known artist is on board, our page on celebrity and VIP charter explains how we keep those trips private.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Colorado-Specific Patterns We Plan Around
Every Colorado airport sits at high elevation, and the right one depends on where you are going once you land. Around Denver, Centennial and Rocky Mountain Metropolitan are the usual choices for a private flight, but Centennial limits aircraft to 70,000 lb maximum takeoff weight, so the largest jets use Denver International. In the mountains, Eagle County serves Vail and Beaver Creek, Yampa Valley Regional in Hayden serves Steamboat, and Telluride has a curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Aspen limits aircraft to a 95 ft wingspan, and its airport will close to all aircraft from April 4th to November 19th, 2027 for runway reconstruction. Thin air and heat change how much runway an aircraft needs, and that is the operator’s call on the day. Winter brings de-icing, summer thunderstorms can hold departures at Denver, and customs is available at Denver International, Colorado Springs, Centennial, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan and Eagle County.
Contact
For a quote on a Colorado charter, send the trip through our contact page or call an advisor at 1-888-987-5387. Our safety page sets out how we review operators and crews, and the aircraft gallery covers every category we arrange. We are also a member of the National Business Aviation Association.