Ed Wegel, who was the president of Eastern Airlines and CEO of GlobalX, announced on his Linkedin account that his new carrier, Zoom Airlines, will debut with Embraer E-Jets.
Wegel, who is currently heading Avi8 Air Capital, plans to create a new airline from Florida that follows a similar strategy to Breeze Airways, founded by David Neeleman.
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Like Breeze, Zoom plans to fly the Airbus A220 in the future. “We are moving forward on our scheduled airline operation, and we will launch with the Embraer E190/195 E1, as we await Airbus A220s in a few years,” explained Wegel.
Zoom appears to be the new name for Air Florida, an airline that had been announced by the same businessman with plans to operate a flight network from the state in the south of the United States.
“Zoom! will work closely with UrbanLink to connect passengers- and UrbanLink pilots- who will start with 500 hours- will build flight hours until they can move to Zoom’s 190s and eventually 220s- we will home grow our cockpit crews,” added Wegel, who also leads the startup UrbanLink.
The company was created to operate LiliumJet eVTOLs, with 20 aircraft ordered to establish a network of urban air mobility flights.
Ed Wegel, however, did not specify when Zoom will debut its flights or the initial size of the fleet.
