Under 135 you can advertise to the public that you will fly them when and where they want to go. Under 125 you have a long term contract with a group that you will fly members of that group but only members of the group. You or I could not just call up a 125 and say, "I want to take 50 friends from A to B tomorrow, how much will it cost?" The Ford Motor Company used to have an in house airline that moved employees from factory to factory on a daily schedule, but you had to be an employee of Ford to ride the planes. That was part 125. Or the example of moving sports teams between games. A 125 might have two contracts, one to move a team during the winter and one to move another team during the summer. I've heard the FAA will limit the number of contracts a 125 can have to 3 or 4 but I've never seen it written.
Last edited by MarkerInbound; 19th Mar 2014 at 01:52.