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NetJets agrees to purchase up to 1,500 jets from Textron Aviation
Textron Aviation announced a record-breaking fleet agreement on Wednesday that enables jet service provider NetJets to purchase up to 1,500 additional Cessna Citation business planes over the next 15 years. (dcnewsroom.blogspot.com) More...
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Great for NetJets and Textron, not so good for the corporate flight departments. It's already hard enough to get an initial on the Latitude, and this will make it practically impossible unless FlightSafety gets more instructors and sims. Hubs is retiring at the end of the year, and it took almost six months to get a school for his replacement. You have to put your name on a waiting list and pray that somebody else cancels.
The wannabe 1% bosses will have plenty of private rideshare jets to go around for a long time!
Having a single type fleet seemed to work out pretty good for Southwest. This has a long list of advantages. The customer gets a clean new aircraft and with most trips under 1500 miles doesn't mind a few less knots. Net Jet bills by the hour so it's no benefit for them to have the fastest, wiz bang, rocket.
Let's not kid ourselves, this is a pure business decision based on getting fancy butts in the air at the lowest cost. Don't see too many Porsche cabs.
Cessna jets are popular with the fractionals because the fractional owners get a lot of bang for their buck. However from my short 16 years flying bizet's, I am not impressed with anything Citation with he possible exception of the X from a pilot's perspective. I hope NetJets will continue buying real jets and not become the reincarnated CitationShares.
Yeah what's the old joke about a Citation? It's a "NearJet".... But can Cessna even produce 8-10 jets a month?
And if you are paying many thousands of dollars per hour to charter a bizjet, you do not want a mere "taxi" like a Honda or Toyota mini van, you want a Bentley or a Mercedes SUV.
Gulfstream is still the real bizjet in my view. Even a decades old GIV is superior to any Cessna.
And if you are paying many thousands of dollars per hour to charter a bizjet, you do not want a mere "taxi" like a Honda or Toyota mini van, you want a Bentley or a Mercedes SUV.
Gulfstream is still the real bizjet in my view. Even a decades old GIV is superior to any Cessna.
I'm a business owner and need to get 3 people 800 miles for a day meeting. What do you think my primary consideration is? How much is it going to cost or whether it is a high performance jet? This is a great move by NetJets.
Yep. 7% faster jet that gets there literally a tenth of an hour faster on that trip. I’ll take dispatch reliability and product support any day.
I know what you are saying, but by the same token, that many planes, they will have to have plenty of pilots and right now there is a Pilot Shortage and Airlines are Grabbing up a lot of minimum time crews... Will be a great time builder for one who needs the time and looking at the airlines, but it will be a Revolving door.
