Blink is stepping up its low-cost European air-taxi network with the introduction of three more Cessna Citation Mustangs due to have entered the fleet around press time. The London-based company has reported high utilization rates for the first aircraft, which entered service in early June, and has said that it is achieving its goal of offering per-seat costs that range from 25 percent less to 25 percent more than business-class scheduled airfares on equivalent routes.
With 45 Mustangs on firm order, Blink is due to start receiving its remaining aircraft at a rate of one per month starting this month. For some weeks during the
first three full months of operation, the first Mustang was logging as many as 30 occupied flight hours, putting the operator on track to achieve its goal of getting around 1,000 revenue flight hours from each aircraft annually. Blink’s business plan calls for the Mustangs to fly an average of four hours per day five days a week.
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