Blue Feather Charter, LLC

I am Director of Operations for Blue Feather Charter, LLC, an FAA-certificated Part 135 air carrier and aircraft management company We support the FAA’s proposed interpretation and believe it is appropriate to allow certain executives to reimburse the company for personal flights, without requiring that such flights are conducted under Part 135. I understand and agree with the FAA’s determination that certain personal trips may not be of a nature where the executive could be called back on a moment’s notice. While the examples provided by the FAA were illustrative, I would urge that they not be viewed a bright line test as there certainly could be situations – including weddings, funerals and surgery – where a disaster may strike and an executive’s personal travel would be interrupted to attend to important company matters. Because the situations where an executive’s personal trip may be interrupted would vary from company-to-company, I recommend that this restrictive view be provided as guidance to a company’s board of directors as they develop their policies surrounding reimbursement for flights of a personal nature, as opposed to a prohibition on the payment for such flights. Sincerely, Rick Prevallet, Director of Operations Blue Feather Charter, LLC