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Does this exist in the air freight business?
In the trucking industry, as an independent trucker, you can call up a broker and get loads with out being tied to one company.
Can you do that in the air freight business. For instance, if I were to by a Cessna caravan are there brokers that I could move freight for or do I have to be leases to a single company?
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Yeah, you could. Part 135 operators often contract out when their planes are down for any number of reasons.
You can throw your hat in the ring, mail your business cards to Ameristar, Ameriflight, Martinair and the like, but chances are that unless you've previously established connections and have a gold plated insurance policy and operational record, you'll be making payments on an airplane that sits until someone remembers you exist.
There aren't, that I know of, any actual brokers that employ "owner/operators" in the air freight industry. That doesn't mean they don't exist, it simply means that after 10 years of dealing with air freight and air taxis, I've never heard of brokers or "owner/operators."
The second part of the problem as an owner with an aircraft is deadhead miles. If you're not expecting something on the delivery end, you're paying for the airplane to fly home. You can budget that into your operational cost, but unlike a truck, it ain't cheap to park an airplane and wait for the next load; you can't sleep in it with the engine running and air freight demands a tighter delivery schedule than a warehouse that roughly figures a truck will be there sometime on X day.
Without getting too in depth, since you're obviously computer literate, you'd be better off to get a night course or on-line degree in computer maintenance and start a business that writes off the cost of an airlane so you can fly around in a small piston single and support a variety of computer systems.
You'd need a commercial single endorsement to an existing license, as well as a sign off on the C208 for your insurance.
If you're a fledgling pilot, or just looking to get out of a sleeper cab tractor, it's probably not gonna happen.
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