The founder
Alex Crisostomo
Founder, CEO and President of CrisJet Aviation. Airline Transport Pilot, former military pilot, certified public accountant, and the person who answers when a trip goes sideways at three in the morning.
- Certificate
- ATPAirline Transport Pilot
- Background
- MilitaryHelicopters and fixed wing
- Type rated
- 3 classesMidsize, heavy, ultra long range
- Also
- CPACertified public accountant, INTEC
Why CrisJet exists
Three seats, one business.
I have been on every side of this business. As a client, as an operator and in the flight deck. That is why I started CrisJet. When you have sat in all three seats you know what the client actually wants, and how they want it.
Alex Crisostomo
He was born and raised in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, in 1996. The aviation began as a childhood fixation, the kind that has you looking up before you can explain why, and it did not stay a daydream. He qualified as a certified public accountant at the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, and he flew for the Dominican Army, trained in Colombia under a United States Air Force programme and graduating with honours as a rotary wing pilot.
Most charter brokers arrive from sales and learn the aviation afterwards. Alex arrived the other way around. Helicopters first, then fixed wing, then an Airline Transport Pilot certificate and type ratings on midsize, heavy and ultra long range equipment. He is still current on several of them, and he has flown his own clients when a trip called for it. He has lived in the United States for several years and works out of Opa-locka, on the Miami side of the business.
The accounting is not a footnote. Charter is a business where the quote and the final invoice are often two different numbers, and where the cheapest option on the page is rarely the cheapest trip. Someone trained to read a cost structure sees that coming. It is why a CrisJet quote arrives with the trade-offs written out rather than buried, and why the company can tell a client plainly when the answer is that the trip is not worth what it would cost them.
That order matters more than it sounds. A broker who has never flown quotes what the client asks for. A broker who has sat in the left seat asks about runway length, weight, weather and crew duty first, because those are the things that decide whether a trip is possible at all. It is also why CrisJet turns work down: anything outside aeronautical limitations, and anything that looks like illegal transport, never gets quoted. There is no price at which those become good trips.
How the company runs
Built by pilots, run like a flight department.
Vetting comes before selling
Every operator's Wyvern standing gets checked before a client is put on anything, along with the assigned crew's type rating, currency and hours on that specific aircraft. Holding type ratings in the same categories he is checking means Alex knows which of those numbers matter and which only look good on paper.
The team is trained, not just hired
CrisJet is small on purpose, and the people in it are brought up on the same standard: answer honestly, answer fast, and own the problem until it is solved. Leadership here is taught the way it was learned, by example and under pressure, which is the only way it survives a three in the morning phone call.
Clients stay monthly, not once
The company puts more than 1,500 hours in the air a year, and the measure Alex watches is not the size of a single trip but how many clients are still flying with CrisJet a year later. Given the choice between a bigger margin now and a client who calls every month, the second one wins every time.
Two languages, one desk
Half the client base is in Miami, the Caribbean and Latin America. Everything runs in English and Spanish, from the first quote to the assistant on the ground in Punta Cana, without anything being lost in a handoff between two teams.
Off the clock
Golf, the water, and aviation.
Alex is a golfer, and that is not a footnote on this website. The relationships CrisJet holds at Teeth of the Dog in La Romana and Port Royal in Bermuda came from actually spending time on those courses, which is why a golf trip booked through us tends to arrive at the right airport with the tee times already handled, instead of landing an hour and a half away with an afternoon left to organise. The same goes for the water: when a trip needs a boat as much as it needs a jet, that is a call he has made before.
Aviation was the first of the three and it is still the one that decides how the company is run. Everything else, the villas, the drivers, the yachts, the assistants, exists because clients asked and the answer was yes.
Get in touch
Tell us where you need to be.
Most quotes come back within thirty minutes during business hours, with options from certified Part 135 operators and the trade-offs written out. A trip that needs international permits takes longer, and we say so. The desk answers, in English or Spanish, and Alex is behind it.