VC SRY Company slogan Above and Beyond Founded 2014 Fleet size 11 | SRY STINGRAY Website www.flyviaair.com Motto Above and Beyond | |
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Destinations Beckley, West Virginia
Charlotte, North Carolina
St. Augustine, Florida Key people Irit Vizer (President & COO)
Keri Harris (Executive Vice President of Operations)
Mitch Pizik (Executive Vice President of B2B Sales) Headquarters Maitland, Florida, United States Profiles | ||
ViaAir is an airline which offers scheduled Essential Air Service from Raleigh County Memorial Airport in Beckley, West Virginia, Parkersburg/Marietta in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Lewisburg (WV) in Greenbrier County, West Virginia near Lewisburg, West Virginia and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and Clarksburg in Clarksburg, West Virginia near Fairmont, West Virginia to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. ViaAir also offers Essential Air Service to Clarksburg from Baltimore.
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History
ViaAir's flight service is operated by Charter Air Transport d.b.a. Via Airlines. The Charter Air Transport fleet has been in service since 1997 operating public and private charter flights for corporations, sports teams, casinos, and air travel functions before expanding to scheduled flight service with ViaAir.
ViaAir began their EAS scheduled flights in December 2014, with the inaugural flight taking place on December 3. Prior to ViaAir taking over the route, it was flown by United Express.
The same day as the inaugural Beckley flight, ViaAir announced it would be operating seasonal unsubsidized nonstop service from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Northeast Florida Regional Airport in St. Augustine, Florida, with its inaugural flight taking place on December 19, 2014.
After a seasonal trial, an agreement was reached to continue service to St. Augustine from Charlotte and Beckley. In early November 2015, ViaAir announced they would extend their St. Augustine service into 2016.
ViaAir, with flights operated by the Charter Air Transport fleet, offers additional air travel options with its AirCruise and Air Tours products. ViaAir's Mauiva products began in 2009 with its Air Tours, and introduced AirCruise in 2011. AirCruise introduced a concept similar to naval cruises, but which transports passengers by plane instead of by boat. While naval cruising is limited to ports, AirCruise is able to reach landlocked destinations.
On September 1, 2016 it was announced that ViaAir and similar carrier Elite Air had been merged under a single holding company known as AirX America, an affiliate of Air X Aviation. In the announcement they stated that they intend to add larger mainline and potentially widebody jet aircraft onto the ViaAir certificate as well as expand the EMB-145 fleet.
Fleet
All aircraft used for ViaAir flights are operated by their subsidiary, Charter Air Transport d.b.a Via Airlines.