Orginally published on FlightGlobal.com on September 9, 2008 By Murdo Morrison Investor wobbles and a dearth of new aircraft have stalled the air taxi revolution in North America. However, those developing the sector insist the hiatus is temporary and that the business community is slowly being won over to the concept of the flying cab. …
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Originally published on Bloomberg.com on August 21, 2008 By Bryan Keogh When the safety cord around his team’s sailboat snapped at the start of the fifth annual hedge-fund regatta, Ned Glenn, a corporate compliance lawyer for Merrill Lynch, plunged overboard into the New York harbor with 16 bows bearing down on him. About an hour …
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Concord, Mass., August 14, 2008 – Linear Air will be a key sponsor and exhibitor at several events over the next few weeks in the key travel regions of New York and New England. A provider of point-to-point air taxi service for the mid-Atlantic region to eastern Canada, Linear Air is sponsoring the 5th Annual …
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The massive cutbacks in service now taking place in the U.S. airline industry mean that some customers whose needs are not being met by scheduled airlines might opt to fly privately instead. Whether it’s a company aircraft, owned outright or through a fractional jet arrangement with a third-party; an air charter; or the newly emerging, …
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Originally published on Flight Global Blog on July 15, 2008 We haven’t discussed air taxi operators of very light jets (VLJs) here on Runway Girl, but perhaps it’s about time we did so. Because while a small fleet of Eclipse 500s might not make much of a dent in the world of commercial travel, a fleet of …
Originally published in the Fairfield County Business Journal on July 9, 2008 By John Golden A 4-year-old Massachusetts company with ambitious plans to expand its share of the nation’s $500-million private air-taxi market with a fleet of very light jets last week launched service with two of those aircraft at Westchester County Airport. Based in …
Posted by Abbi Hiller on Tue, Jul 01, 2008 Concord, MA, July 1, 2008 – With commercial airlines tacking on fees for baggage, reducing routes and increasing ticket prices to account for the rising cost of fuel, private air travel is now a truly viable option for travelers, both financially and from a productivity perspective. Linear Air, a …
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Originally published in the Worcester Business Journal Online on July 7, 2008 By Matthew L. Brown Linear Air, a Concord-based air taxi service, has closed on $3.5 million in equity financing intended to fund the company’s expansion in the Northeast. In particular, the company needs the money to support the growth of its Eclipse jet service, which …
Concord, Mass., July 7, 2008–Linear Air, the premier provider of point-to-point air taxi service in the Northeast, announced today that it has closed a $3.5 million round of equity financing. Proceeds from this round are to support the company’s continued growth of the Eclipse VLJ jet service launched in November 2007 as well as expansion …
