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VistaJet sees airline model, options as keys to expansion

Fast-growing executive charter group VistaJet yesterday spelled out details of its new Flight Solutions portfolio.

By Brian Walters

November 16, 2008

Fast-growing executive charter group VistaJet yesterday spelled out details of its new Flight Solutions portfolio. The Swiss-based group says that by operating closer to an airline business model it can radically change the economics of private aviation to make it a more viable option to a wider customer base.

“We have no base,” VistaJet chairman Thomas Flohr told a MEBA show press conference yesterday. “The sky is our base.” What he meant by that is that the company’s fleet–which is being built up to include more than 90 aircraft–will be moved around the world according to where their charter bookings take them and will then, in theory, be well positioned for their next mission.

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