JetSuiteX Delays Santa Monica Service Plan
The charter operator's scheduled service between Santa Monica, San Jose and Carlsbad, Calif., has been delayed.
According to JetSuiteX, it sold flights to more than 1,000 customers after announcing the service on December 14. JetSuiteX has now cancelled all SMO flights from February 6 through 24 “to avoid uncertainty and confusion…and will issue full refunds for all affected customers.”
More than half of the ticket buyers were residents of Santa Monica, and the charter operator planned to offer discounts to any Santa Monica resident after their first ticket purchase to encourage residents to benefit from using SMO. “I think we need to give the city and the residents a reason to use the airport,” JetSuiteX CEO Alex Wilcox told AIN in December.
“Given the uncertainty surrounding the status of the airport,” he said, “we have entered into this standstill agreement to provide time for an orderly process to negotiate with the city. We apologize to our clients…who have been adversely affected by the unprecedented recent events concerning SMO.”