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By popular demand: more positive air-taxi news
For a change, some positive air-taxi news
Not so thankful in Albuquerque today
DayJet may have struggled in America....
Realms converge: DayJet, VMware. Weird!
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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...
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12-03-2008 13:08
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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...
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12-02-2008 16:36
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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...
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11-25-2008 21:44
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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...
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11-24-2008 5:14
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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...
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11-19-2008 13:31
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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...
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11-14-2008 22:35
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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...
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11-13-2008 14:43
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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...
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09-09-2008 8:50
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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...
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09-08-2008 10:12
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