Wheels Up Partners with Talon Air on NY–Florida Shuttle

Membership-based private aviation company Wheels Up is partnering with Talon Air to launch scheduled per-seat shuttle service in Talon’s super-midsize Hawker 4000s from Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains, New York, to Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE). The service, which is exclusively for Wheels Up members,  costs $2,100 per seat one-way, including taxes, according to Wheels Up founding partner Justin Firestone.

Flights will leave HPN at 4 p.m. on Fridays and return at 6 p.m. on Sundays. Firestone said that the shuttle service will run through March 5, but could be extended past this date depending on usage.

“This is currently the only shuttle we are running with Talon Air,” he said. However, Wheels Up already runs several shuttle flights in the Northeast and central California using its fleet of Beechcraft King Air 350s, whcih are operated by Gama Aviation. In fact, Firestone said, it will be adding King Air shuttles from New York and Boston to Nantucket and Hyannis this summer, as well as other to-be-announced destinations.