AeroJet is an airline based in Angola . It was established in 2002 and operates Embraer ERJ-140 aircraft.
5-447: Since 2018, the airline also performs flying services for virtual airline Fly Angola , flying one EMB-145 for that company. The AeroJet fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2021): This Angola -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to an African airline is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Virtual airline (economics) In economics ,
10-450: A virtual airline is an airline that has outsourced as many possible operational and business functions as it can, but still maintains effective control of its core business. Such an airline focuses on operating a network of air services, and outsourcing non-core activities to other organizations. Contracting out services within the aviation industry has reportedly become so common that many carriers could be classed as having features of
15-623: A regulatory standpoint, the aircraft may display the virtual airline's livery , and may be owned or leased by that company. Virtual airlines originated in the United States following the drastic changes brought about by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 . During the hyper-competitive years immediately following deregulation, major airlines found it increasingly unprofitable to compete against start-up carriers on many routes they currently served. Instead of forfeiting
20-445: A virtual airline, although it is arguable whether any current carriers meet a strict definition of the term. The term is often used to describe travel companies and ticket agencies that market themselves as airlines, but do not possess an air operator's certificate and contract with one or more certificated operators to fly and maintain aircraft, often under an air charter or wet lease arrangement. Although operated by others from
25-413: The routes entirely, the larger carriers often made marketing arrangements with smaller airlines to fly under the "banner", or livery, of the larger airline. These regional airlines , mimicking the well known major airlines in adverts and purporting to make connections as seamless as possible, soon abandoned their own local service routes. In most cases, the regional airlines found it more profitable to serve
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