VLJ’s- Call an Air Taxi
Thursday, July 27, 2006
‘Microjets’ may be the future of air travel
Planes would ease travel by flying on demand, using secondary airports
By Rob Lovitt
MSNBC
Planning a plane trip? Depending on when and where you?re flying, you may want to consider hailing a taxi instead. An air taxi, that is. Thanks to a fleet of ?microjets? set to hit the market, hopping a jet could someday be as easy as hailing a cab. Air taxis, of course, have been around for years. Geared primarily toward business travelers, most use turbo-prop planes and smaller airports to provide on-demand service for regional travel. Now, though, forward-thinking flyers are hoping “very light jets” (VLJs) may make such services feasible for the rest of us.