New Austrian VLJ Company

Globe Air promises to significantly reduce travel time with its recently launched VLJ Taxi service using the Cessna Mustang. The Linz, Austria-based company will ultimately operate a fleet of Mustangs by year end and will add several Grob spn next year, according to Globe Air’s Marketing Director Georg...

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Globe Air promises to significantly reduce travel time with its recently launched VLJ Taxi service using the Cessna Mustang. The Linz, Austria-based company will ultimately operate a fleet of Mustangs by year end and will add several Grob spn next year, according to Globe Air’s Marketing Director Georg Wilfing, who told VLJ Report the business model focuses on providing on-demand, corporate shuttle services. It expects to operate at several bases throughout Europe, with its launch base being Linz, followed by Altenrhein and Graz.
“The cost of the service will be very competitive in comparison to traditional charter services using light to small jets,” said Wilfing, adding customers will have a choice of packages that best suit their travel needs. Globe Air promises that between Linz and Parma, it will turn a five-hour-15-minute, door-to-door commercial trip into a two-hour-and-15-minute trip, with the added convenience of choosing when to depart and return with efficient security procedures. The web site offers a unique calculation tool, called Radar, to help perspective clients gauge their time and costs of their itinerary and allows the customer to locate the closest airport to the their intended destination. In the coming weeks, additional features will be introduced including "myBookings" for quick on-line reservations, past travel history and will allow "travel budget" members to view their account status.
He noted that Globe Air’s base locations in Central Europe will be a key to its success, affording flights to virtually any destination airport on the continent. Clients can “conveniently select and book flights from a list of home bases in Central Europe to any destination airport on the continent,” according to its web site. “Our taxi-jets will take you there and back affordably, without any hidden costs. Globe Air masters complex flight operations in a professional and reliable way. In addition, we assume all the attached responsibilities and liabilities. We place our know-how at your disposal, including all the advantages and possibilities of a commercial air traffic company.”
The company is targeting travelers with a €50,000 travel budget for a five percent bonus on flights and for those with a €100,000 travel budget for a seven percent bonus on flights if they sign up before the end of this month. It expects its passengers to be the typical on-demand charter passenger, as well as those that are frequent users of air taxi services, fractional owners as well as owner/operators. “An executive flight in an air taxi becomes very beneficial when considering opportunity costs due to inefficient time management of traditional airline travel," said the company.
It promises an experienced two-pilot operation licensed with air transport pilot certification with check flights required every six month.