Getting the Most Aircraft Management Benefits Through Clay Lacy
Clay Lacy Aviation takes a personalized and thoughtful approach to aircraft management – delivering a better aircraft ownership experience, by anticipating needs and having the experience and resources to offer more.
A complete partner invested in an owner’s success, Clay Lacy’s aircraft management benefits span personal hospitality-driven service, and logistical and financial expertise to make your ownership run seamlessly. In every area, enhanced aircraft management benefits create a better aviation experience.
How Aircraft Management Serves You
In one aspect, the advantages of Clay Lacy aircraft management can be simplified – we save owners costs. By leveraging the size and scale of our managed fleet, we lower operating expenses – with up to 20% total annual savings on insurance, staffing, operations, maintenance and fuel compared to private management of individual services.
We also handle all the responsibilities of operating your aircraft through a support team that surrounds you. We recruit and retain a highly trained professional flight crew. A dedicated aircraft scheduler and financial manager handle every detail of every trip with superior dispatch reliability.
Our owners expect and receive exceptional flight crew recruitment and training, nationwide maintenance support, safety systems ranking in the Top 2% of all Part 135 operators, insurance solutions at scale and transparent financial oversight.
We proactively work for our clients to optimize maintenance scheduling, reduce downtime and keep your aircraft in top condition while our transparent accounting services provide detailed summaries of all operating costs. Taking care of your valuable asset through planned or unplanned maintenance.
Offsetting Costs Through Charter Revenue Programs
Clay Lacy’s tailored aircraft management solutions include options to help offset ownership costs through generating premium charter revenue.
The decision to place your private jet on Part 135 charter requires careful thought and analysis, our experienced team of advisors can determine the missions and markets best suited to your aircraft and your own needs. Our comprehensive analysis gives you the information to make a data-driven decision on how or if charter revenue offset is the right fit.
Ownership Planning and Aviation Advising
Nearly 60 years of private aviation experience allows Clay Lacy to help you navigate through fleet and ownership planning – providing you the data to purchase a new private jet or upgrading your existing aircraft.
Through our network of industry partners and trusted contacts, we can connect you with experts throughout private aviation to help make the right decisions for your ownership. We will keep you informed on the best ways to update avionics, interior refurbishments and performance enhancements.
By comparing and planning your travel profiles, we can advise how to adapt your customized aircraft management services – to get the most benefits throughout the aircraft ownership lifespan.
Complete Financial Transparency
Clay Lacy is also committed to giving you the complete, accurate and timely reporting necessary to manage your aircraft at the highest level. Our aircraft management reporting capabilities provide you with clear, transparent and actionable information that clients can access easily at any time, from any device, wherever they happen to be.
These capabilities seamlessly integrate transparent profit and loss reporting, financial summaries, charter and scheduling data in one place, along with an annual operating budget derived from real-world operating costs. This budget accounts for anticipated annual utilization, charter operations, planned capital improvements, large maintenance events and significant changes in the use mix on the aircraft.
Clay Lacy tailors aircraft management benefits to your unique ownership situation. Contact our team to learn more.
