Dayjet Dies!
 

http://www.dayjet.com/

could have seen that one coming from a mile away...

Good luck to all those pilots out there

Good opportunity to buy an eclipse cheap?

interesting coincidence - i read an article in USA Today a few days ago about an investigation into the FAA having certified the eclipse jet without meeting proper safety standards.

Sign of the times and very unfortunate. Best wishes to the DayJet folks.

I hate to see those guys go..i met one of the pilots in Ocala,Fl and he was a real nice guy..he took the time after his shift to show me the a/c...the eclipse jet look like a nice little cozy jet to fly

Great.....more pilots on the "bread lines".

I think they got a waiver for single-engine climb performance...as in they don't have any. They let them use the light piston twin standard, ie both engines are required in order to survive the TO.

Bad market research and a hell of a gamble. They never posted a profit since their inception. Good idea, bad economy.

What never made sense to me was the labor part of the model...tiny as those things are, they are REAL turbojets, and require real turbojet pilots. How did they expect to afford that with only 1-2 paying pax?

There are plenty of reasons to chose a regional over an air-taxi operation, so they would have to beat regional pay in the long term.

Maybe the assumption was tips...large ones, in cash.

It was more QOL issue. Home every night, no weekends....pay a little more than a 121 turboprop CA, but less than RJ CA.