A multi-engine, instrument rated pilot, James Wynbrandt has been an AIN and Business Jet Traveler contributor since 2003. His in-depth reporting and insightful features have won more than a dozen editorial honors, including two National Business Aviation Association Gold Wing Awards (2019; 2021), and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune, Forbes, and Smithsonian Air &amp; Space. He has flown his Mooney M20K 252 on assignments throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean. Wynbrandt is also the author of Flying High (Wiley &amp; Sons), a biography of Jet Blue founder David Neeleman, as well as histories, references works, and books on a variety of other topics from major publishers. He lives in New York City.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based OneJet, which provides scheduled business jet service in the Eastern U.S., will add two Cessna Citation CJ4s to its fleet in first-quarter 2018 and plans to take up to 10&nbsp;of the light jets per year for its expanding network, Textron Aviation and OneJet announced on Wednesday at NBAA 2017. The Citations will come from the pre-owned direct inventory of Textron Aviation, Cessna’s parent company, with Textron Financial financing the leased jets.

 


“Our agreement with Textron Aviation is an important step for our growing fleet model,” said OneJet CEO Matthew Maguire told AIN. He expects the eight-passenger jets will typically be 2012 to 2014 model years. No decision has been made on where the first two Citations will be based.

 


Launched in 2016, OneJet now offers more than 180 flights per week to almost a dozen cities, including Albany, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; Hartford, Connecticut; and Nashville, Tennessee on a fleet of eight Hawker 400XPs operated by Contour Aviation, Maguire said. He expects the company will offer 300 flights per week by year-end.

 


“We see about 1,200 routes in the Eastern U.S.” that OneJet could serve, Maguire said.

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