2025 ChutingStar Staff & Holiday Breaks

While ChutingStar may seem to some like some huge corporate monster of a company, we are a group 7 people serving the skydiving community out of one location in Marietta, Georgia. For the most part, we're available 24/7 in some manner be it in the shop, on the phone or online.

Since 1999, we've mostly been able to provide seamless support by staggering breaks for our staff and covering for each other's "specialty" so that you rarely know when one or two of us are gone for a few days.

Many skydiving manufacturers have a summer and a winter shutdown that may be a week or more. ChutingStar has always stayed open during those times to support skydivers with info, advice, parts and gear. That will be changing slightly this year.

For 2025, there will be a couple of staff breaks to give our group a breather. This will delay custom orders processing and some shipments, but we've scheduled these breaks around holidays and manufacturer shutdowns where we are limited in what we can do at that time anyway.

Below are the upcoming ChutingStar staff breaks for 2025 that may delay custom order processing and order fulfillment (updating throughout year):

December 24-28: ChutingStar Winter Break. Order fulfillment and support will be delayed during this time. Online orders will still be processed during this time, and will ship when we return on December 29.

You can see our full 2025 Holiday Schedule that affects shipments at this link.

In addition, here are the 2024/2025 skydiving manufacturer shutdowns below, which affect order processing and fulfillment as well. We do try to stock up on parts before these shutdowns to help keep you in the air if something breaks or is lost.

December 23-January 6: LB Altimeters Closed.

December 24-January 5: Aerodyne Closed.

December 20-January 5: Performance Designs Closed.

December 20-January 6: Vigil & Manufactory Closed.

December 20-January 10: AON2 Closed.

Even during these times we'll be closed, you can always reach us via our contact page, which sends us emails. These emails are monitored and answered asap if it's something we are able to help with quickly. Contact us here.