DayJet has grounded it's entire fleet of planes and suspended service, including airports in Georgia. The on-demand air taxi service blames the economy and a failure to secure financing.
DayJet began flying into several Georgia airports, including Macon's Downtown Airport, several months ago. The on-demand airline targeted the business traveler. For a yearly fee passengers were able to book flights to six southern states at a moments notice.
The concept is called air taxi service. Haroon Qureshi is with ImagineAir in Atlanta. They hope to lure some of DayJets former customers. He says unlike DayJet they are expanding their business and believe it's the future of air travel.
"The way airlines are now, you know, I don't know how much longer they can continue. I mean if people are willing to pay the price to go through that then clearly there's demand. But I would say services like ours are going to be the wave of the future."Qureshi says ImagineAir currently flies into 600 airports in the southeast. DayJet will not be issuing refunds to customers.
