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They've acquired a few old AE Embraer 135's and are planning to conduct scheduled 135 service with them under the brand "Jet Suite Deluxe" or something of that nature. They were doing practice passenger loading today at KSNA.
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JetSuite to revamp fleet with new light and large-cabin jetsUS air taxi company JetSuite is planning a major revamp of its business jet fleet to exploit the growing appetite in the USA for its branded, low-cost charter service.
The operator’s will add with 10 Embraer Phenom 300s over the coming year and will also add up to 10 large-cabin jets over the same period, “to accommodate those customers looking to fly further and/or with more passengers,” he adds.
“We already have a dozen [entry-level] Phenom 100s and eight Cessna Citation CJ3 [light] business jets which are working really hard,” he says.
Wilcox will not disclose until the end of March which large-cabin type JetSuite has selected. However, it is likely to be the Embraer Legacy 600/650, in keeping with the company’s strategy to stick with a single manufacturer fleet.
“We operate a point-to-point and coast-to-coast service with the Phenom 100s and CJ3s,” Wilcox says. “The large-cabin aircraft will open up new markets, notably Latin America, which is becoming an increasingly popular destination.”
The Orange County, California-headquartered company is the seventh largest business aircraft operator in the USA in terms of aircraft revenue hours. Each model flies more than 100h per month: “more than twice the utilization of a typical Part 135 aircraft,” says Wilcox.