How do I make my conure's transfer to a new home easier?

Since I cannot give my green-cheeked conure all the attention he deserves due to being a full-time university student, my family and I have decided to give him to a new home. One of my friends who lives close to my place has a sister who really wants him and the good thing about that is if they have a problem with Charlie, he can always come back to my place. Plus, the family is very familiar with birds but this'll be their first conure.

What I'm wondering is how to make this transition as smooth and as easy as possible. I've already informed my friend that her sister and the family need to come over to bond with Charlie before they take him to their place but I'm worried that I need to do some other things. I dearly love Charlie, which is why I'm making the hard choice of giving him to a new home.

So, any advice?

I also have a green cheek named Charlie! I think it is a popular bird name. Mine came with the name because I took him when his previous owner didn't want him anymore so I can give you the perspective of the person who takes the bird. He actually adjusted quite quickly to myself and my fiance and was hanging out with us and wanting to be around us within a few hours. It took him a little while longer to settle into his new cage (his old one was super dirty and too small - plus he had only one small toy) but he started playing with his new toys within the week.

So, from ONLY personal experience, it was a pretty easy transition despite his old owner doing almost nothing to make it so. So, I imagine if you work with your Charlie and his new potential owner, he will be OK. I would recommend some visits to your place to visit with him, maybe a bit of time when you aren't in the room (even if he's in the cage and they're just there talking to him). Then I would also do some visits with Charlie to his potential new home so that he's more comfortable there. This will also allow you to identify any potential dangers at the new place or make suggestions based on your experience with him. If there's no hurry, just go slow and make sure the new place/person is associated with treats and that they receive all the information they need about him and his habits, routine and diet to make things run smoothly (they should stick to that as closely as they can at first). I also used to have a parrotlet and she would spend equal time with me and my parents depending on which one of us was busy or who missed her so parrots can adapt to new environments. Perhaps someone here who has more experience with rehoming different parrots will have more advice to offer as well. Good luck, sorry to hear you have to find your bird a new home but glad you are doing it right.

its so nice to read you are doing all you can to find a new home for him, and also a little sad that you have to as well,
as printer bird says and i would say resist urge to visit for a while after the move as when i took nut in my brother paid a visit about a week later to bring her main cage up, she was soo happy to see him and then she became uber aggressive and started biting really bad, after he had gone, plus looked sad all the time, she has since stopped this but as my brother lives so far, he can't just pop up, but i think if he paid a visit now, she would settle faster after his leaving