Wade and Dave Eyerly, the founders of Surf Air, an all-you-can-fly Part 135 membership service that operates Pilatus PC-12s on West Coast routes, have left the company. The brothers started Surf Air in 2011, and flight operations began in June last year. In February the company hired Jeff Potter as the new CEO.
As CEO of Frontier Airlines, Potter helped expand that company from five to 60 airplanes and more than $1 billion in revenues. After leaving Frontier in 2007 (he remained on the board of directors until 2010), Potter ran the private vacation club Exclusive Resorts. The job at Surf Air wasn’t on Potter’s radar. “They contacted me,” he said. “I wasn’t particularly looking and was keeping myself busy in other areas when the board reached out.” He was attracted to Surf Air’s membership model, he said, “and having that as an umbrella over the aviation component. For me it’s the perfect place to find myself.”
More In Charter & Fractional
