DAY JET INFo

[HOURBUILDER]

Does anyone heard about dayjet which headquarter is located in delray beach.
I beleive they are a future taxi jet airline which have already purchased 300 eclipse mini jets.

Anyone with info about this company?

 

[CapnVegetto]

There's a whole lotta 'what ifs' in this one. This business plan has been tried before on a smaller scale, and has failed miserably. And as soon as the rich guy pilots get a hold of the microjets, you can expect insurance costs to go through the roof, along with DayJets' operating costs. I'd be wary at the least.

 

[HOURBUILDER]

sounds like enough information

 

[FlierDude]

To answer hourbuilder, it's a big unknown. There are some operators buying blocks of VLJ's, but we'll see where they go. None of my clients (Pt 91) have expressed any interest, a couple have Eclipse positions and will be owner-pilots. I personally think the whole on-demand network is implausible. It would have been put in place by now with 310's, KA 200's, Citation 500s, etc., take your pick.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

THe big difference with DayJet is their software. They supposedly have developed a software model, which is only possible with current technology, that will optimize the scheduling and use of their Eclipse jets to make an on-demand/scheduled type of company economically feasible.

They have been working on their software for quite a while.

Cliff
ABY

 

[JPAustin]

Hi!

THe big difference with DayJet is their software. They supposedly have developed a software model, which is only possible with current technology, that will optimize the scheduling and use of their Eclipse jets to make an on-demand/scheduled type of company economically feasible.

They have been working on their software for quite a while.

Cliff
ABY

Thats the big difference in this case. Heck, if the airlines had something even half as sophisticated as the real-time integrated logistics software that will run DayJet, you would see CASMs go down a healthy percentage. DayJet has been running a virtual airline for over a year now based on logical customer habit prediction and has proven the model can run very profitably with 4-hour/day aircraft utilization (kind of like The Sims for airline managers).

Remember, Ed Iacabuci (check spelling) founder and CEO of DayJet is an IT genius who worked on IBMs Big Blue project, formed Citrix Systems in the early 1990s (the fastest IT company to get the S&P 500), and is paired up with Vern Raburn, founder of Eclipse Aviation who is also an IT guy who left upper Microsoft management echelons to start Eclipse.

Not to mention that Rob Crandall (former American CEO and founder of Sabre and Yield-Management), who has rarely failed, is so convinced of per seat-on demand that he too is starting a VLJ operation called POGO up in the northeast.

I don't discount the insurance costs though, which will be a heftily priced reality. I don't know if these companies will be able to attract the quality of pilot they need to keep those insurance costs acceptable and to keep customers feeling safe. True, the Eclipse is so automated and integrated that, really, the aircraft itself is the "second-in-command", but we all know the vagaries of single-pilot operations. If only one of these VLJs go down too early in the maturation of this industry niche, that could spell the end of it all.

Time will tell though, and the customer base is indeed there. The customers just have to be convinced to STAY customers.