Charter companies manage relationships between political campaigns and vendors who supply the transports — like a mash-up of a matchmaker, a wedding planner and a crisis counselor. They are the behind-the-scenes logistics obsessives without whom a person running for national office would never be able to get anywhere they needed to be. Advanced Aviation Team (AAT) is possibly the biggest name in the national campaign charter circuit. In the past two presidential election cycles, FEC filings show, it has worked for the campaigns of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. “Missing an event is a travesty,” said Jonathan Tasler, vice president of Advanced Aviation Team. “You’ve got maybe tens of thousands of people who are accounting to see somebody, and now you’re not there? I mean, the level of disappointment is hard to compute. It is just a disaster in so many ways.” Head to the link in our bio to read tales from the airplane-chartering gurus. (Illustration: @roseph_jogers)
