Every expression on the face of Thomas Flohr, founder and chairman of VistaJet Holding SA, bore the stress and strain of a nearly 10-hour flight when he showed up in New Delhi on a recent Thursday morning. He has barely had time to shower. He is still looking to grab a bite three hours after landing. Flohr's flight to India in a Global 6000, one of the London-based luxury air-charter company's 37 Bombardier jets, was delayed by an hour after a client in Spain insisted they meet the previous night.
Flohr's schedule — meetings with potential clients and journalists — has gone astray, but he is not complaining. This flexibility, he says, is why chartering a private jet makes better sense than flying a commercial airline. "Everything an airline does is driven to be on time. Everything we do is driven to be flexible." Flohr had landed in India to make a big splash. The country, he says, is "absolutely important" for VistaJet — which placed the largest single transaction in the history of business aviation when it ordered 56 Globalseries aircraft from Bombardier last November — from two standpoints.
15/09/13 Binoy Prabhakar/Economic Times
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Flohr's schedule — meetings with potential clients and journalists — has gone astray, but he is not complaining. This flexibility, he says, is why chartering a private jet makes better sense than flying a commercial airline. "Everything an airline does is driven to be on time. Everything we do is driven to be flexible." Flohr had landed in India to make a big splash. The country, he says, is "absolutely important" for VistaJet — which placed the largest single transaction in the history of business aviation when it ordered 56 Globalseries aircraft from Bombardier last November — from two standpoints.
15/09/13 Binoy Prabhakar/Economic Times
