Can a New Private Jet Service Backed by Former DOT Chief and Online Veterans Win Where Others Lost?
Photo Credit: OneJet is flying nonstop routes in six-seat Hawker 400 executive jets from Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. OneJet
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There is an opening for moderately priced and nonstop private jet services for business travelers in cities that the larger airlines have abandoned.
Scheduled, private jet service may be the best alternative for small cities that no longer have nonstop routes from bigger commercial airlines that abandoned them.
With that in mind, a who's who of former DOT, TSA, airline, online travel and travel agency executives are serving as advisors to a new scheduled, private jet service, OneJet, which is flying routes -- or will soon do so -- in markets such as Indianapolis, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.
CEO Matt Maguire said a major investment bank in New York, the former CEO of a legacy airline, and a former C-level Boeing execu
