Sports & Events
Some of the most fun flying in JetCard is event-driven. Real-world sports schedules, marquee cultural events, and live VATSIM activity all feed into the charter board — so when the NFL has a packed Sunday or there’s a major event happening on VATSIM, JetCard’s market reflects it.
Sports Team Charters
JetCard tracks live regular-season and postseason schedules for the major North American leagues plus a few European top-flights:
- NFL · NBA · MLB · NHL — full season + playoffs
- MLS — full season + playoffs
- English Premier League — full season
When a team has a road trip, JetCard generates the actual flying that team would do — a road game in one city, sometimes a multi-stop swing through several cities, and the trip home. The aircraft category and passenger count reflect the size of the squad and traveling staff.
Each sports trip ships as a multi-leg trip on the charter board, generated automatically from the league schedule. The trip dossier names the team, the matchup, and the road context — playoff implications, notable rivalries, recent form — without using real player or coach names (those are referenced indirectly: “the franchise cornerstone,” “the new head coach,” “the defending champion”).
Teams use realistic aircraft for their actual category — VVIP-configured commercial jets for NFL, large or commercial for NBA/NHL, etc. The cabin is laid out with extra legroom, fold-down tables for film review, dedicated coach and medical sections — exactly how real team charters are configured. JetCard reflects this in the briefing and dossier.
Where Sports Trips Show Up
Sports trips appear on the Charter Board with a Sports trip type. They’re full multi-leg trips, so accepting one commits you to the whole road swing. If you only want to fly one leg, accept a different (single) charter — sports trips aren’t broken up into individual legs you can cherry-pick.
VIP Attendance Charters
Beyond the team itself, big games and events generate attendance charters — VIPs, sponsors, and high-net-worth fans flying in for the event. These are smaller passenger counts (4-12 typically), executive-jet appropriate, and run as round trips (out the day before, return the day after).
The trip dossier for an attendance charter focuses on the event rather than the team — the venue, the storyline, why this particular game or fixture matters. Ground transport is staged for VIPs (executive SUVs, town cars, arranged chauffeurs to hotel and venue) rather than team buses.
Examples of events that generate attendance flying:
- Major sports finals and championship games
- The Masters, US Open, and other PGA Tour tentpoles
- Kentucky Derby, Breeders’ Cup
- Marquee MLS Cup, Champions League, World Series fixtures
VATSIM Event Charters
JetCard pulls live VATSIM events twice a day and generates charters around the event airports. When VATSIM publishes a major event — a fly-in, a virtual airline takeover, a published event with arrival/departure procedures — JetCard creates a batch of charters with origins or destinations that match.
This means if you fly online and an event is happening at, say, EGLL or KJFK, you’ll find generated charters that route into or out of that event window. They’re regular charters (not multi-leg trips), and they expire on the same daily cleanup cycle as everything else.
Why This Matters
VATSIM events are some of the most fun controlled flying available. Pairing them with a JetCard charter gives you a realistic operational reason to be there — passengers, payout, dispatch flow, the works — instead of just showing up for the controllers.
F1 Trips (Dual-Hop Format)
Formula 1 race weekends generate dual-leg trips with a unique pattern: the first leg flies VIPs into the race city for the weekend, and the second leg flies them out after the race. Both legs are part of the same trip with a single dossier covering the full weekend — circuit, qualifying storylines, the broader season context.
The two-leg format reflects how real F1 attendance flying works — a Friday/Saturday inbound surge and a Sunday/Monday outbound surge across major circuits.
Picking Up Event Charters
Event-driven charters use the same accept flow as anything else on the board. Filter the Charter Board by trip type to find sports-driven activity, or watch your Recommended for You if your operator has been flying similar trips — JetCard surfaces matching event opportunities based on aircraft category and base location.
Schedule Cadence
- Sports trip generation runs on a weekly schedule per league, plus a daily activation pass that flips upcoming trips onto the board.
- VATSIM event harvesting runs twice a day, picking up new events as they’re announced.
- Daily cleanup removes expired event charters (e.g. the day after a game).
You don’t need to do anything for any of this — just check the board. If there’s a major sports weekend or a VATSIM event ahead, you’ll see the activity reflected.