Originally Posted by Freight Dog

Definitely do tip your charter pilots. Here is why:

Unlike the airlines, they are the ones that do almost everything for you: from ensuring your favorite papers and magazines are onboard, to ensuring your favorite candy is there, to loading your luggage and making it work when you bring in too much, to calling ahead and arranging for your transportation/limo/car, to giving you the best possible flight for you, to calling ahead for your already arranged transport to be waiting for you planeside when you arrive, to cleaning up the plane after you and your guests, to unloading your luggage only to watch you slip a tip to the FBO guy who has brought out he car and put your bag in back of it after your pilot unloaded it.

An appropriate tip is anywhere from $100 to $1000+.

Is it expected? No. It's a token of appreciation that is greatly appreciated by the pilots and cabin crew. What is insulting is after doing all the work, your crew watching you tip the line person from the FBO greeting you who only pulled up your car and put your bag in the back and you not so much as acknowledge what these pilots did for you.

Rest assured that if you are a known tipper, charter people will bend over backwards for you, always strive to exceed your expectations in hopes you will request them by name.