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Planet 9 bolsters managed aircraft fleet in teeth of the pandemic

Planet 9, which has operations bases in Teterboro, New York, London and Lisbon, has seen more clients turn to the safe cabin environment of its private aircraft to keep their families protected during the pandemic.  Much of its flying over the recent holiday season has been to the Caribbean Islands, especially The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos – from both US and European airports. 

“Our floating model aircraft operation has enabled us to support a wider range of charters and flight repatriations this year, often at short notice.  We have flown for charter brokers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as assisted with urgent medical professional flights,” said Matt Walter, Planet 9 Cofounder and Director of Business Development.

“With the US borders still closed to people from the Schengen region and vice versa, leisure and business travel between North America and Europe continues to be very restrictive,” he added.

Planet 9 was busiest in December and early January prior to the UK going into a second lockdown for a month.

The popularity for Caribbean travel from the US is expected to continue through to the end of January, suggested Matt, noting another trend is for last minute, 72 hours’ notice of travel.  “We have a range of ultra-long-range aircraft now, so are better able to fulfil these short-notice requests.”

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