IFC’s Chairman views about the future of VLJ’s in Latin America is covered by Kirby J. Harrison, a renowned aviation journalist for Aviation International News. The article covers in detail the outcomes of the first VLJs in Latin America and Caribbean conference held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December, 2007. The conference was held by MIU Aviation Events and was the first of its kind in the region. The second edition of the conference will take place on November in 24-25 in Miami, Florida, please visit www.MIUevents.com .

Some of IFC’s chairman’s quotes are:

According to Oscar García, chairman of InterFlight Consulting and chairman for the MIU Events VLJ conference held in Rio de Janeiro in December, the VLJ in Latin America will most probably fill a niche between traditional on-demand charter and airline travel. He explained that rising ticket prices and limited access at the airlines and higher user costs for charter will open a market that the VLJ is positioned to serve.

He estimates that the airlines will sell approximately 100 million seat trips over the next three years in Latin America, and two million travelers will take advantage of private aircraft transport. These numbers, he added, suggest a substantial market potential for fast, reliable transport with the advantages of on-demand charter at prices close to coach-class full-fare airline prices.

With the growth of a VLJ air-taxi industry in Europe, InterFlight Consulting chairman Oscar García foresees “parallel operations by air-taxi operations alongside regional carriers and access to the public through the same reservation systems.”
 

While much of the VLJ conference discussions centered on challenges facing the VLJ market in Brazil, InterFlight chairman García noted that many of the problems in Brazil are similar to those in other Latin American countries. “If we can solve a problem in one country,” he said, “then we will have created the framework for a solution in all the other countries.