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Page 2 of 3 VLJ AIR-TAXI OPERATOR PROGRESS REPORT
(courtesy of David Whitmore at www.airtaxiworld.com)
With no VLJ yet in air taxi service, it comes down to the question, Which air taxi operators plan to use which VLJ? Here's an overview. The first air taxi service anticipating VLJ operations is DayJet, which plans a mid-2007 start in Florida with the Eclipse 500, then expanding into the southeast and beyond.
Linear Air, already operating in the northeast with propeller aircraft, has the Eclipse 500 on order for its fleet.
ImagineAir in Georgia has also chosen the Eclipse 500 for its operations.
Point2Point Airways in North Dakota will be acquiring Diamond Aircraft's single engine D-jet.
Magnum Jet, preferring to call its service "air limousine," plans on the Adam Aircraft A700 and Embraer's Phenom 100 for its fleet to operate from Million Air's established FBO locations around the country.
That covers operators with published plans for specific VLJs. There are a few whose choices are not yet decided or revealed: POGO in the northeast, Pl!mo (not a typo error) in the DC/VA/MD area, and ProntoJet.
Cessna's Citation Mustang, first of the small jets with FAA Production Certification, is notably missing in this list, perhaps because it is said not to be targeting the air taxi market and considers this model to be an entry-level jet (not a VLJ).
Breakdown of Operators by Type
Type I: Operators who own or control everything - the aircraft, pilots, reservations
Type II: Brokers, network operations, or aggregators who contract with various aircraft owners, and have reservation systems to marry them to flying passengers
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