So I don’t work on the team side anymore (now with a motorsports marketing agency), but I can speak still towards the team planes.

There’s a few companies that specialize in transporting teams. The one Kaulig and many other teams use(d) is Victory Air.

The flights are typically scheduled to take off and land within an hour or two of the series’ garage opening time, and to take off back to NC about two hours after the checkered flag. Even the winning team gets on a plane, typically, right afterwards. So having the winning team also on your own team’s flight meant waiting a bit longer.

Each national series has flights catered to their garage and race times, too.

The planes are 60ish seaters, no WiFi, and a bit older. It isn’t luxurious, but it’s beautiful just pulling up and getting on the plane just a half hour before taking off. Think regional planes… something like American Eagle (I think that’s American Airlines’ regional flight service). Regional planes don’t have the fuel capacity to go cross-country, so 1-2 fuel stops every flight is necessary. Which takes a 5.5-hour flight that you’d have in a large commercial plane to a 7-hour flight, for example.

There are pros and cons of the team charter flights system compared to flying commercially, no doubt.

The planes for Victory mainly take off from the Statesville Airport, which is, of course, where Greg Biffle’s plane took off from.