Charter & Fractional
Dispatcher Buys His Charter Firm, Reaps Big Payoff
Executive Fliteways's sales chief bought his employer to avoid a takeover, and the timing couldn't have been better.
Rapid growth took place after James Prinzivalli bought the company he worked for.
Rapid growth took place after James Prinzivalli bought the company he worked for.

In 2020, when the owners of Executive Fliteways (EFI) began shopping the charter/management firm, James Prinzivalli grew apprehensive. “I loved this place,” the former dispatcher and charter sales director said of the operator where he’d started his career 25 years before. “The owners were getting a lot of interest from heavy operators, and negotiations started getting serious.”

The prospective buyer, a “very large” company with its own dispatch and operations departments, “had no real use for the employees working here,” Prinzivalli said. “That rattled me. It got me thinking about trying to buy the company myself.”