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Flight Options lays off 105 personnel

Flight Options, a fractional jet ownership company and travel company, announced that it laid off 105 pilots, maintenance workers, and office staff, because demands for private jet travel has rapidly decreased.

Jay Heublein, vice president for sales and marketing at Flight Options, said that this week’s layoffs affect “people across all departments, some pilots, some from operational support and others from our business infrastructure. It was a scaling down of our entire business.”

Heublein claims that the company intends to call back the employees once the economy improves. “We have every intention of getting back to our former levels of staffing,” he said.

However, Heublein feels that he does not see the demand for the company’s services to increase in the next three to six months.  

He added, “We’ve been dealing with the harsh economic environment for quite some time now. Reducing employment levels is never an easy decision to make, but we have positioned Flight Options to succeed in what is a dramatically different economy from just six months ago.”

On an optimistic note, he mentioned that “we are starting to see some stability in the marketplace.”

In the fourth quarter, Flight Options is planning to introduce new services that will make their brand more attractive to consumers. And the company will also feature new aircrafts in their inventory. 

Currently, the company’s aircraft inventory includes: Hawker 400 XP jets, Cessna Citation X jets, and Embraer Legacy 600 jets.