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More reassuring news: new life for Eclipse?

This news has been brewing for weeks, but it appears to have reached a critical point. The assets of the ill-fated Eclipse Aviation company, whose rise is described here and here , and demise here and here , may be sold at auction today to a new group...

Published 20 Aug 2009 9:21 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi

By popular demand: more positive air-taxi news

Which follows on this positive update and some earlier sobering news . 1) Another company covering a lot of territory with propeller-driven Cirrus SR-22 airplanes is Midwest Air Taxi , which is based in Iowa and says it serves 450+ airports in the sizeable...

Published 3 Dec 2008 13:08 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi

For a change, some positive air-taxi news

Attentive readers will be familiar with the trail of tears recounted here , involving the dashed hopes of the small-jet maker Eclipse and the pioneering air-taxi company DayJet . Sigh sigh sigh. But all along, air taxi companies that have flown passengers...

Published 2 Dec 2008 16:36 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi

Not so thankful in Albuquerque today

It has been coming for a while, and today it came: Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Eclipse Aviation, pioneering maker of the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet. For more background than you'd want to know, check the posts assembled here . Gives an additional bittersweet...

Published 25 Nov 2008 21:44 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi

DayJet may have struggled in America....

... but its goal, operating plan, and marketing language live on in India! Check out the site for MyJet , based in Mumbai, and its upcoming " Per Seat, On-Demand " air taxi service in the subcontinent. "Values" rendering from the site...

Published 24 Nov 2008 5:14 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi, India

Realms converge: DayJet, VMware. Weird!

Time and again I've praised (or eulogized ) DayJet, the radically innovative but now out-of-business air taxi company based in Florida. And I've praised VMware , the still-in-business California company that lets you run Windows and Mac software...

Published 19 Nov 2008 13:31 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi, Technology

Three more ways of looking at Eclipse

... the innovative, Albuquerque-based small-jet company that appears to be in deep economic distress. Background here . - An irate perspective from a New Mexico political commentator, here . (Sample: "Eclipse has been on the ropes for years, yet...

Published 14 Nov 2008 22:35 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi

The Eclipse watch, cont.

Background: the "air taxi" model, discussed in these posts , this article , this book , and this website , is showing viability around the world -- especially with companies using relatively inexpensive SR22 propeller planes from Cirrus, rather...

Published 13 Nov 2008 14:43 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi

Two air taxi updates

1. Miwok : As mentioned recently , yet another air taxi company has started up. This one, Miwok Airways , is using small, posh Cirrus SR22 propeller-driven airplanes and serving Southern California roughly between San Diego in the south, Oxnard in the...

Published 9 Sep 2008 8:50 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi, SATSair, Miwok

The coming of the air taxis, part 538

For years and years now -- nine years, to be precise, since this 1999 article in the NY Times magazine and my subsequent Atlantic article and book Free Flight -- I've been arguing that the mounting hassles of airline travel, and the emergence of radically...

Published 8 Sep 2008 10:12 by James Fallows

Filed under: Aviation, Air taxi, SATSair

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More reassuring news: new life for Eclipse?

By popular demand: more positive air-taxi news

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Not so thankful in Albuquerque today

DayJet may have struggled in America....

Realms converge: DayJet, VMware. Weird!

Three more ways of looking at Eclipse

The Eclipse watch, cont.

Two air taxi updates

The coming of the air taxis, part 538