Transition Mandates
The Transition Mandate.
One mandate. Both sides of your move.
Most principals acquire their next aircraft while still operating their current one. A
Transition Mandate
covers both sides of that move under
one engagement, led by one Senior Advisor
— the acquisition of the aircraft you are stepping into and the sale of the one you are leaving — so timing, market exposure, and negotiating position are managed together instead of against each other.
What Counts as a Transition
If a replacement aircraft is part of the plan, it is a transition
Moving up in cabin, range, or mission. Consolidating two aircraft into one. Stepping from a turboprop into a jet, or from a midsize into a flagship. In each case the same two transactions must happen — a purchase and a sale, for the same principal, in the same window of time — and how they are sequenced determines what both are worth.
Handled as two separate engagements with two separate firms, they pull against each other. Handled as one mandate, they reinforce each other. That difference is this page.
The Broker Effect™ — Made Concrete
Three conflicts every transitioning owner faces.
This is where the framework stops being abstract.
The Broker Effect™ describes how the industry's structure shapes advice. Nowhere is it easier to see than in a transition — because a conventional brokerage meets a transitioning owner with three built-in incentives, none of them yours.
01
The broker who lists your aircraft wants to sell you the next one.
Ideally from inventory, or from a partner's listing that carries a reciprocal obligation. The recommendation of which aircraft you should buy is shaped before you have asked the question.
02
Marketing your aircraft tells the market you are about to buy.
A public listing announces your intentions. Every seller of your target aircraft now knows you have a deadline — which is exactly the information a negotiating counterparty should never have.
03
The sale and the purchase pull against each other on timing.
Sell first and you may operate nothing while you search. Buy first and you carry two aircraft. A firm engaged on only one side has no reason — and no ability — to manage the two against each other.
These are not hypotheticals; they are the structural incentives documented in
The Broker Effect™.
A transition is where a principal meets all of them at once.
The Transition Mandate
How one mandate resolves all three.
Structure, not promises — as everywhere at Amjet.
01
One Senior Advisor leads both sides.
The acquisition recommendation is shaped by your mission and the market — never by what the firm holds or owes. Amjet has held no inventory since December 2007 and carries no reciprocal broker obligations.
02
Controlled exposure protects the acquisition.
The outgoing aircraft is distributed principal-first — directly to known owners and qualified flight departments — before any public platform sees it, and it is never identified on this website. The market learns you are selling on your schedule, not
03
Sequencing is managed as one plan.
Sale timing, acquisition timing, delivery, and any bridge between them are run by the same advisor against the same calendar — because both transactions answer to one strategy, set in the advisory that precedes every Amjet mandate.
The Fee Structure — Disclosed Before Engagement
Two fees under one mandate:
one for the acquisition representation, one for the sale of the aircraft you are leaving. Both are disclosed in writing before the engagement begins, and neither depends on steering you toward or away from either transaction. As with every Amjet engagement, the mandate is preceded by an independent advisory, engaged and paid for on its own terms
Who Leads It
The Senior Advisor who leads your engagement leads both sides of it.
A Transition Mandate is led by the Senior Advisor who leads your relationship — in Palm Beach or in Zürich — from the first strategy conversation through both closings. One advisor, one calendar, one accountable name.
Behind that advisor stands the firm's
Transition Mandates desk, which manages the outgoing aircraft's distribution and sale to the same standard as every Amjet mandate — principal-first, then the public platforms where its buyers actually search, and never as Amjet marketing.
Questions Principals Ask
Plainly answered.
01
What is a Transition Mandate?
The commitments on this page are guaranteed by the structure of the firm and by the terms of the engagement agreement, in that order. Amjet holds no inventory, operates no internal trading desk, accepts no reciprocal deal-flow obligations, sets no volume incentives, receives no undisclosed compensation, and collects no service-provider referral fees. These six structural absences are conditions of the firm's architecture, not policies that could be relaxed in a given engagement. The engagement agreement then documents them as binding terms specific to each mandate. A guarantee that depends only on intent can be withdrawn; a guarantee that depends on architecture and on contract has two independent anchors.
02
How are fees structured in a Transition Mandate?
Two fees under one mandate: one for the acquisition representation and one for the sale of the outgoing aircraft. Both are disclosed in writing before the engagement begins, and neither depends on steering the principal toward or away from either transaction. As with every Amjet engagement, the mandate is preceded by an independent advisory, engaged on its own terms.
03
Will the market know I am about to buy an aircraft?
Not from Amjet's marketing. The outgoing aircraft is distributed principal-first — directly to known owners and qualified flight departments — before any public platform sees it, and it is never identified on the Amjet website. Controlling who learns of the sale, and when, is precisely what protects the principal's position on the acquisition.
04
Will my current aircraft be listed on the Amjet website?
No. Aircraft sold as part of a client's transition are shown to registered principals first and then marketed with full specifications on the public listing platforms where their buyers search — never on the Amjet website, and never as Amjet brand material.
The Natural Next Step
The conversation usually begins with the aircraft you own today.