VistaJet International, the world's luxury private aviation company for the first time landed one of its global aircrafts at Entebbe airport in Uganda and launched its operations in the country.
Revealing the arrival of the three weeks old jet in
Entebbe recently, Thomas Flohr the founder and Chairman of VistaJet said the
company is set to offer dedicated aircraft flying Ugandans to all corners of
the globe. "Such booming markets deserve brand new state of the art aircraft
rather than the ageing pre-owned aircraft they have been accustomed and this is
what VistaJet is here to provide in Uganda," Flohr noted.
The company targets business men and government
leaders who want to be flown directly into the destination they deserve to and
at that particular time when they want to depart which is not the case with
other commercial flights.
"The most important thing is the time the
passenger wants to arrive at the given destination and so those who will use
VistaJet will save time on delays due to connecting to airports,"
explained Flohr adding that the concept of private jets has been so much out of
Africa but now is the time for the continent to go global.Ugandan business
mogul, Charles Mbire said the world today is about price, cost and time while
business is about efficiency and therefore competing globally in terms of
business requires such avenues.
"The people targeted here are the ones who
think and spend therefore the notion of African time and arriving late at
business meetings on the side of Africans is phased out with the arrival of
VistaJet," said Mbire.
In the year 2012, VistaJet carried 25,000 passengers
on 10,000 single international flights. All transactions will be tabled between
the client and the aircraft considering those with expected travels of between
100 and 600 flights per year. "We charge only for the time spent on the
aircraft a concept termed as 'legs up and legs down' in aircraft business and
when the passenger is done with conducting business.
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