Let me catch you up on how I got here. As a son of a pilot born in WV I decide to join the US Coast Guard after high school. After 4.5 years in the mility I decided I would attend WVU and completed my 4 yr degree in 2.5 years by attending summer classes. I then moved to Embry-Riddle U. in Daytona Beach, FL to complete my commercial flying courses. After completing my flying I was hired to fly for a part 135 air charter company in FL flying old lear jets. After 6 months at a pay of about $18,000 a year working day and night I decided to take a much better paying job in Cleveland, Oh. After 2 years of flying lear jets as a co-pilot I was upgraded to fly cargo as a captain. Since those early years I have managed to gain 7 jet type ratings in the following aircraft. (G200, G450, Global Express, Citation 500, Lear Jet 45, B737, and Lear Jet series)
One day while flying for an air charter company in Indiana I found out quickly that some people in the industry will sacrafice their friends or employees to get a dollar! I built this air charter company up from no flying to over 170 hours per month on two lear jets! Then they tried to take my commission away from me after I got all of the business coming in. I told them I would just let them handle the air charter and I would just fly. Well, then next month air charter dropped off the cliff! I was the type of person who answered the phone at 3 am to book trips. I was also the type of person that sent out quotes in a matter of minutes and not hours. I built a company web site, took pictures of our aircraft, sent emails, faxed, and advertised our aircraft without spending any company money! I answered all phone calls and I also flew more hours than any other pilot at our flight department. So my commission of 3% was earned! They soon laid me off thinking they would run the company without me. Several weeks later they laid off more pilots and cut the pay of the remaining staff members. Later they would go on to disolve the company because of the lack of air charter flights.
During that time I decided I could build a system to help people market their empty legs and sell more air charter. It was there in Fort Wayne, In that http://www.chartermatrix.com/ was born. Now here I am with 5 aviation web sites and growing! The story had a happy ending after all.
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