Cardinal Partnership Programme

Cardinal has introduced the “Cardinal Partnership Programme”, a scheme to pre-purchase charter hours on the Cardinal Sikorsky S76C++ VIP helicopter at a reduced rate compared to the standard ad-hoc charter rate.

If you are likely to be using our helicopter in excess of 10 flying hours a year it may be worth considering joining the Partnership.

Joining the Partnership programme will give you the benefits of a fractional ownership programme without the associated costs. The more hours you pre-purchase, the greater the discounted rate. And, because there are no management fees, as in fractional programmes, you will have a considerable saving over fractional or full ownership.

Benefits

The Partnership has many benefits that are not available to our ad-hoc charter customers

Pre-purchased hours, secured as a block or bank, attract a privileged rate.
With the Cardinal Partnership you can extend the block hours to family, friends and/or other members of your company.
All flying is subject to the helicopter’s availability. Partnership members can pre-book the aircraft to secure its use over any possible ad-hoc charter use.
Guaranteed use of the same aircraft and crew allowing the client to build a rapport with our professional team.
All the benefits of ownership but unlike ownership you can “walk away” if circumstances change.

Partnership Tiers

First and foremost you will have to decide which Partnership tier is appropriate for you. If you are uncertain of which tier best suits your requirements we can advise you and provide you with an analysis of your likely flying requirements for a set of given circumstances.

Every time you fly, the amount of "wheels up to wheels down" hours the aircraft flies will be debited from your account. You are only debited for the actual flying time; you do not have to pay for the convenience of having the helicopter available to you. Your actual flight hours are verified directly from the cockpit Flight Management System readout.

If you are finding that your helicopter usage is increasing and you would like to be shrewd about your use going forward, you can pre-purchase more hours at your present tier or move up to the next tier. The remaining hours in your account will be carried forward and will then have the same Cardinal Partnership Programme Rates.

Bronze

10 inclusive hours

4% saving over ad-hoc booking

Valid for 1 year

Silver

25 inclusive hours

8% saving over ad hoc booking

Valid for 1 year

Gold

50 inclusive hours

12% saving over ad-hoc booking

Valid for 2 years