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07:00 - 08-May-2008
The firm, based in New Street, Pocklington, supplies private aircraft to ensure travellers avoid the long queues and lost luggage associated with commercial flights.
It began trading in May last year and can arrange for customers to go almost anywhere across the globe.
Managing director Simon Knocker said there was a strong commercial argument for company bosses to fly to meetings.
He said: “Some people might see it as an extravagance for a chief executive to fly from his headquarters in the south to a meeting in Newcastle.
“By car or train, it could be a three-hour journey there, then a two-hour meeting, then a three-hour journey back again.
“By chartering an aircraft, it could be just 50 minutes door-to-door, then the meeting and another 50 minutes back home again.”
Andrew Whitney, commercial director of the company, said the service offers flexibility to customers.
He said: “Nowadays, to go on a scheduled flight, you have to turn up two or three hours beforehand.
“If you book with us you just turn up 15 minutes beforehand, climb on board and take off.”
Mr Whitney said chartering a private plane was no longer the prohibitively expensive option it once was.
He said flying a party of eight people from London to Paris and back cost in the region of £6,000.
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