Public Charters (P1, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International) has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for authority to operate scheduled passenger flights as a commuter air carrier.

In the application, the Pennsylvanian virtual carrier said it would use an in-house 6-seater Piper (twin piston) PA-31P-350 Navajo to operate a daily (weekday only) roundtrip between its Wilkes-Barre/Scranton hub and Baltimore Thurgood Marshall.

"The company will conduct flights exclusively from Fixed Base Operations at each airport (Aviation Technologies, its Affiliate, at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International and Signature Aviation at Baltimore)," it said. "Therefore, PCI will not need to lease ramp, gate, or ticket counter space in either airport’s main passenger terminal."

PublicCharters currently charters aircraft from Corporate Flight Management (Smyrna), Ultimate Jetcharters (Akron Regional), and Sunwing Airlines (WG, Toronto Pearson) for flights across the United States as well as to Freeport International in the Bahamas, some of which are operated under the commercial risk of the operators just using PublicCharters as a platform.