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Tony, I've been involved in aviation for almost 50 years. With all the bull krap invloved with main stream commercial air travel, these small jets, coupled with either business time sharing of time for business use or with smaller city (50K-500K population) un-scheduled transportation to smaller airports is definitely a future reality. However, the interim (transition) into these operations (especially the unscheduled transportation) will require time to build business. That will require plenty of money and patience.

Company executives often must travel on short notice. That results in expensive ticket prices. In addition they must go through the necessary security inconveniences. This requires more time (which is precious to biz execs). These small jets will provide far more convenience and efficency for approximately the same price as their commercial airline tickets purchased on short notice. How much more convenient to simply go to a smaller airport and immediately board the airplane for an immediate take off.

This is especially economically feaasible if this semi-charter service is shared with others going to the same area at approximately the same time.

There is currently such an air service operating in Florida between Orlando, Tallahassee, Fr. Lauderdale, and a few other destinations. (Sorry, I forget the company name.)

Thank you for the insight. I'm not going to disclose the details of my situation due to competitive reasons.

The idea is that I originally could have done this for $600,000 startup, but the financial market crisis/bank credit crunch has really messed up my plans.

The $2 million is needed to show the banks I have collateral for loans, that's all. I use currency, stock, and commodity options to hedge my expenses.

www.flypogo.com found an investment bank to do what I'm doing, but on a larger scale. They couldn't help me due to a conflict of interest.

Let me ask you this, if I did a pink sheet IPO for this business, would you consider investing in it? Could you relay to other aviation types that there is a way to invest in this without a large initial outlay? For example, you could afford to invest $1,000 in a risky investment, rather than $500,000.

You may also want to check out the Virgin online reservation system for air charters that will be available early 2008. It is in beta test right now. Branson came across a start up called Smart Charter and it is creating a travel portal for 2500 air charter services and all air taxi services to come.

Thank you for the encouragement. As of right now, there is no other jet charter priced competively compared to what I was going to offer either.

Tony

David, we probably need to speak. Contact info on profile.

DomainDiva

I will check that email this evening.