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  • Visitors fly into Santiago, take a 90-minute flight to Puerto Montt, then catch a 40-minute charter or air-taxi ride to the farm, which has its own airstrip and hangar.

    Vast Open Space, Near the End of the World Juliet Chung 2011

  • A pilot who runs an air-taxi business was hoping to mash up flight, bus, and subway schedules.

    iGov 2009

  • Basing a price on fixed costs was easy for Andrew Schmertz, chief executive of air-taxi operator Hopscotch Air Inc., which launched in 2009.

    7 Pricing Mistakes 2011

  • A pilot who runs an air-taxi business was hoping to mash up flight, bus, and subway schedules.

    iGov 2009

  • Linear Air, another new air-taxi company, serves cities in the Northeast with Cessna turboprops and Eclipse jets.

    Taxis in the Sky 2008

  • Cities that could keep small turboprops full might generate too little traffic for larger regional jets, but plenty to sustain an air-taxi business.

    Taxis in the Sky « Isegoria 2008

  • "Flying Finish" involved the transport of horses, so Mrs. Francis learned to fly, an experience she enjoyed so much that she started an air-taxi service conveying people to racecourses.

    As Jockey or Author, a Success 2010

  • The difference between a writer and an entrepreneur is this: the only thing I could figure out to do was write a book about it; by January 2002, Iacobucci and his wife had raised several million dollars from friends, family, and tech-industry investors to start work on a new air-taxi company.

    Taxis in the Sky « Isegoria 2008

  • The prominent analyst Richard Aboulafia, of the Teal Group, in suburban Washington, has argued that the potential market is so small, and the costs and risks so large, that the air-taxi concept is mainly hype and wishful thinking.

    Taxis in the Sky 2008

  • OPENING-DAY GLAMOUR A passenger leaves an Eclipse on a Boca Raton runway on the first day of DayJet's on-demand air-taxi service

    Taxis in the Sky 2008

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