Enquiry with a deposit

An enquiry today is an email: free to send and easy to ignore, and an operator has no way to tell a serious one from a curious one. An enquiry with a deposit is different. You put down a refundable sum when you ask, the operator sees a buyer who means it, and answers first. If the flight does not happen for any reason on the operator's side, or the price is not what you asked about, the deposit comes back. Nothing here is live yet. This page explains the idea and asks whether you would use it.

What the record says

Read live from our record, kept since 30 July 2026. The point: legs move fast, and being the first serious buyer in the operator's inbox matters.

How it would work

1. You enquire on a leg as now, and choose to attach a deposit: a fixed sum, held by a payment provider, not by us and not by the operator.
2. The operator sees the enquiry marked as deposit backed and answers within a set time with a firm price and terms.
3. You accept: the deposit counts toward the charter, which you contract directly with the operator. You decline, or the operator cannot fly: the deposit is released in full.
4. You accept and then walk away: the deposit goes to the operator for the time and the aircraft they held. That is the one case where you lose it, and it is stated before you pay.

What we have not solved

Who holds the money. We are a listing service, not a broker and not a payment institution; a deposit must sit with a licensed provider under an escrow style arrangement, and the rules for that differ by country. The size of the deposit and the answer time will be set with operators, not by us alone. If those pieces cannot be made to work cleanly, this page will say so rather than launch something vague.

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