Trips & Multi-Leg Flying

Single charters are the bread and butter — accept, fly, get paid, repeat. But the real charter world runs on trips: multi-leg journeys where one client books a sequence of flights tied together by a single agenda. JetCard models these alongside the single-charter board.

What’s a Trip?

A trip is a sequence of two or more legs flown for the same client (or set of related clients) on the same itinerary. Common trip patterns:

• Round trip — outbound today, return tomorrow. Same client, both directions.
• Multi-stop — client flies City A → City B → City C and home, all on one contract.
• Repositioning + client legs — your aircraft deadheads to a pickup, flies the client, then deadheads home.
• Sports/event trips — see Sports & Events for the franchise-driven trip system.

Every leg of a trip is a charter in its own right — same dispatch flow, same flight tracker, same rules — but they’re linked in a parent Trip record so you can see the whole arc together.

Generating a Trip

Trip generation is available to Operator Owners and Chief Pilots. From the Company → Trips tab, click Generate Trip and pick:

• Aircraft — the jet that will fly the whole trip. Trips don’t switch airframes mid-itinerary.
• Origin — where the trip starts (usually your operator’s base).
• Leg count — 2, 3, or 4 legs.
• Pattern — round trip, multi-stop, or open-ended (return home or stay at last city).
• Optional max leg distance — if you want to constrain the routing to your aircraft’s comfort zone.

JetCard generates a candidate itinerary with realistic clients, trip purposes, payouts, and a generated trip dossier (see below). You’ll see the full leg list with destinations, distances, and per-leg values before you commit. If the generated trip doesn’t fit, click Regenerate to roll a different one.

When you’re happy with what you see, click Confirm Trip. All legs write to your active flights at once. The first leg becomes available immediately; later legs unlock as you complete the prior one.

Trip Dossier

Every confirmed trip ships with a Trip Dossier — a written narrative covering the full journey from the perspective of an account manager briefing the crew. It’s accessible from the Trips tab and from the Briefing tab during any active leg.

The dossier covers:

• The client’s backstory — who they are, what their company does, why this trip matters
• The agenda at each destination — what meetings, deals, events, or activities are happening
• Why the cities are in this order — context that explains the routing
• What the trip achieves when it’s done

Multi-leg trips feel completely different from a string of unrelated charters because the dossier ties everything together. The same client and storyline run through every leg.

Flying a Trip

Each leg flies exactly like a single charter — open Dispatch, generate the OFP, request ground services, fly. The only difference is the leg progression:

• Leg 1 is available immediately on confirmation.
• Leg 2+ sit pending until the prior leg is completed.
• After completing leg N, leg N+1 automatically flips to available and shows up on your charter board.

You don’t have to fly legs back-to-back. Take a break, fly something else, come back to the trip the next day — the trip stays in your active record until every leg is flown.

Trip Payouts

Each leg pays based on its own charter value, governed by your pilot status the same way single charters are. Trip total is the sum of leg values plus a small trip premium (15-25%) baked into each leg — clients pay a slight premium for booking the whole journey through one operator.

Trip totals show in the Trips tab so you can see expected revenue at a glance.

Voiding a Trip

If you confirm a trip and then can’t fly it, you can void the remaining legs. Voiding releases all pending legs and the assigned aircraft, but it costs reputation — clients don’t love when you back out of a multi-leg booking. Already-completed legs stay paid; only pending and available legs clear out.

Voiding is the right move if you genuinely can’t fly the rest. If you just need a longer pause, leave the trip alone — there’s no time pressure on individual legs.

Trip vs Charter — When to Use Each

• Single charters — opportunistic flying, day-of decisions, mixing aircraft and routes freely. The Charter Board is your friend.
• Trips — when you want a coherent storyline across multiple flights, full client context, and a tied-together payout arc. Generate from your operator’s Trips tab.

Both are valid styles. Many operators run a mix — a few generated trips for rhythm and storyline, plus opportunistic single charters from the board to keep the schedule full.