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In-Flight Crew Connections Business Aviation Staffing & Workforce Solutions Since 2002. IFCC connects business aviation operators with thoroughly vetted, mission-ready professionals.

Contract pilots, cabin crew, schedulers, direct hire recruiting, and more. Available 24/7/365.

Most departments have a Plan B. Fewer have tested it.The test is not whether you have a number to call. It is whether th...
10/16/2026

Most departments have a Plan B. Fewer have tested it.

The test is not whether you have a number to call. It is whether the person on the other end can produce a typed, current, screened crew member for your airframe in the window you actually have.

If you have not run that test since last year, it is one of the six questions we will go through at Booth #1428.

October 20 to 22, Las Vegas. All three days.

Booth 1428 at NBAA-BACE, October 20 to 22.You can take our Are You Mission Ready? quiz ahead of the show: https://zurl.c...
10/15/2026

Booth 1428 at NBAA-BACE, October 20 to 22.

You can take our Are You Mission Ready? quiz ahead of the show: https://zurl.co/BiJfk

Two minutes - and you'll see where your workforce plan is solid and where it’s not. Where it's not is the reason to come over and talk to us.

The typed pool is smaller than Gulfstream and it thins faster in a busy month. A department operating Falcon with a two-...
10/14/2026

The typed pool is smaller than Gulfstream and it thins faster in a busy month. A department operating Falcon with a two-name call list is more exposed than the equivalent Gulfstream operation with the same list.

That's why having access to a deeper bench of qualified, typed pilots matters.

Citation next.

In 2023, a flight department operating 16 aircraft came to IFCC for supplemental pilot support.When they later needed ca...
10/13/2026

In 2023, a flight department operating 16 aircraft came to IFCC for supplemental pilot support.

When they later needed cabin attendant coverage, they turned to us again. One of those contract cabin attendants proved to be such a great fit that they hired her full-time.

Today, the relationship continues, with IFCC providing crew support for six trips so far in 2026.

Three years. Different workforce needs. One ongoing relationship.

It's a great example of how business aviation relationships grow. Not every flight department needs every service all the time. But when needs change, there's real value in having someone who already knows your operation and the people behind it.

10/09/2026

For many flight departments, January planning starts well before January.

October is often when teams begin evaluating workforce needs and comparing options for the year ahead. By November, those conversations may be moving toward agreements and approvals. December becomes the time to confirm availability, schedules, and coverage for the first part of the year.

That is why waiting until January to address a known staffing need can leave far fewer options. If 2027 workforce planning is already underway, Q4 is the time to address anticipated retirements, leave, fleet changes, and hard-to-fill positions.

Our January business aviation crew compensation benchmarks - based on our own placement data rather than survey responses - can also help inform early 2027 planning and may be worth waiting for before finalizing compensation numbers.

Start planning with us at BACE: Booth #1428 | Oct 20 - 22.

We're publishing our pilot bench by aircraft type.These are pilots whose qualifications and currency have been reviewed ...
10/08/2026

We're publishing our pilot bench by aircraft type.

These are pilots whose qualifications and currency have been reviewed and verified. Not simply names in a database. Availability and any additional onboarding requirements are confirmed when an assignment comes in.

We are doing this because the question a director actually asks is never what our overall numbers look like. It's whether we can crew their airplane. Only one of those numbers is useful.

Falcon is next. Tell us which aircraft type you'd like to see.

This one is for the procurement side.Most corporate supplier diversity targets get missed the same way. Not because nobo...
10/07/2026

This one is for the procurement side.

Most corporate supplier diversity targets get missed the same way. Not because nobody is trying, but because the spend gets counted in the categories people think to look at, and aviation is almost never one of them.

Flight departments buy crew staffing, maintenance labor, dispatch support, and payroll services. That is real, recurring spend. At most companies it never gets checked against a diversity target, because it sits inside an operations budget rather than a procurement one.

IFCC has been woman-owned since Jennifer Guthrie founded the company in 2002, and holds WBENC and WSOB certifications.

If your organization has a target and aviation has never been part of the conversation, that is worth ten minutes with whoever owns the number.

Booth 1428 at NBAA-BACE, October 20 to 22.

One woman’s vision in 2002 has grown into a nationwide aviation workforce partner.When Jennifer Guthrie founded IFCC, sh...
10/07/2026

One woman’s vision in 2002 has grown into a nationwide aviation workforce partner.

When Jennifer Guthrie founded IFCC, she saw a need in business aviation and set out to solve it. More than two decades later, that same commitment to people, relationships and service continues to shape how we support flight operations across the country.

Today, we’re proud to be a WBENC-Certified Women’s Business Enterprise.

Aviation staffing expertise. Woman-owned leadership. One trusted workforce partner.

Want to know how it all started? Hear Jennifer tell the IFCC story - from flying contract trips while building the company to where we are today. Read and watch Jennifer’s story: https://zurl.co/8uFRT

Run this against your own roster. Take your pilot count, remove one for eight days, and walk the schedule forward. Not a...
10/06/2026

Run this against your own roster.

Take your pilot count, remove one for eight days, and walk the schedule forward. Not a sick day. Eight days. Surgery, a family situation, an unexpected medical issue.

Now factor in aircraft qualifications, PIC/SIC requirements, overlapping trips, and scheduled time off. How many viable crew combinations are left?

The number that matters isn’t just how many pilots you have. It’s how much flexibility your roster has when one of them is suddenly unavailable.

How long before a trip has to move?

A flight department is usually one division inside a company that does something else. Which means aviation employment q...
10/05/2026

A flight department is usually one division inside a company that does something else. Which means aviation employment questions land on an HR team with no aviation background, or on a director with no HR background.

Neither of those goes well.

We run payroll, benefits, and compliance for aviation personnel as employer of record. The department stays lean and nobody has to become an expert in something they did not sign up for.

Over 400 flight departments work with us, and most started with a single placement. What kept them was the part nobody markets. The payroll ran correctly, the filings happened, and nobody had to check.

Booth 1428 at NBAA-BACE if you want this peace of mind for your department.

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