Petersburg in Marrakech from Ibiza or Milan

Go to Venice in private without putting on straw jet: it is possible through Wijet, first French airline to taxi jet. More prosaically, Wijet account register in the trend of the "day trip", very appreciated by companies. For the two leaders of the start-up, Corentin Denoeud and Alexandre Azoulay, the calculation is quickly. "Out of Paris, flights to 25 European destinations simulations show that to move to 3 or 4, our taxi jet offer is competitive in almost half of classical cases from those of the airlines", they say, referring to the byzantine pricing of these. Unlike the "yield management" that fluctuations in the price of the overnight, Wijet apply fixed and posted pricing (Web site ). The client does pay only actual flight time, charged 2,200 euros. Which, on the basis of four passengers, gives the go and back in the day Paris-Cologne or Paris-Geneva to 1,100 euros per person.

The private jet advantage: the ability to rally several steps in a single day, practice to visit customers. A facilitated, as confidentiality and the lack of airport formalities remain the privilege of jet or giving cards owners right to a quota of hours of vol. example: NetJets, pioneer of the system, package of 25 hours cost the trifle of 118.000 euro is EUR 4.720 vol. time "our goal is to make it more accessible to the use of private jets., argues Alexander Azoulay (HEC, Sciences po, and an MBA at Harvard) which, prior to launch Wijet, had restated an SME of the machine tool sector. A bet similar to the creators of the aircraft, the company which had broken the prices of class Affairs in 2007.

Word-of-mouth and Facebook

Wijet puts forward its large radius of action with the serving nearly 1,200 European destinations and the Mediterranean basin, St. Petersburg in Marrakech from Ibiza or Milan. Not to mention the French cities of medium size, which are not always within reach of TGV. This flexibility lies in the choice of the equipment of the company: two Citation Mustang (Cessna), a third from March, the delivery of the fourth scheduled for June, each carrying four passengers maximum. "Larger devices are much more expensive to purchase and maintain", explains Corentin Denoeud, complex software packages for the logistics and transportation specialist. He said that a standstill of the machine is reached from 350 flight hours per year.

Prior to its first flight, operated in August, the young airline lifted necessary EUR 2 million, including, to the financing of the new bought aircraft in leasing. About 60 investors (via the Tepa law) have trusted this Quartet, composed, in addition to managers, the "operational" Jean-François Hochenauer and Frédéric Daubresse, former pilot of the air force and Navy ex-instructeur.

TPE (total of 7 employees) week is a business customer, but it also has to offer and transects shopping or Museum day in Milan and Venice as well as packages weekend of snow (with hotel and ski package). Alexandre Azoulay leveraging social networks to relay the word-of-mouth of the shareholders of Wijet, which are also its first clients and prescribers. "Facebook can be used to share a flight," he said. Paris, Wijet clients are invited to the Tokyo Art Club, that select also connected Caucus regularly bringing artists and clients of the Parnassus Concierge.