A private jet company could expand beyond billionaires to serve construction firms and medical companies needing reliable employee travel. Mesa Gateway's growth as a freight hub offers another angle: pre-inspected cargo flights that bypass traditional border crossings, similar to how Uber moved into freight trucking.
Are you in the deal room? I just, you know, my mind started kind of going around. Is there a specific target audience that the Jet Company is willing to either open up or just, or they just want to focus on certain target audience as a client?
So what I'm noticing an opportunity for the clients is, so there's the individual person who does the personal travel as far as like really high net worth individuals is like what most people think of people who fly private. But where I'm seeing the opportunity is construction companies. I'm seeing medical companies who need to fly several employees where it's just so chaotic to try to manage so many employees flying commercial. And so people— companies are starting to look at private jet travel as far as like for convenience and ease and just peace of mind. So that's kind of the strategy that I'm trying to approach for the retail side of clients.
Okay. The only reason I'm asking this is I just wanted to see, based on, you know, what the company has been working with and the capacity of weight they can actually carry, is being— again, I'm from a border town, so I'm always thinking logistics, right? And the reason why the Mesa Gateway kind of increased in their, you know, their size and the way they were doing this is because now they're coming in as a freight, you know, kind of like a freight line. So instead of having to stop in Nogales over there by the Mexican border and looking at all the imports and exports that are coming out, it's— this is a direct flight. Items already fully inspected when they land into Mesa, and then they do the distribution. So I'm thinking that that could be in either an annexation or a kind of a similar strategy to approach it, um, because again, you know, they're expanding the port of entry that's already been open here where I'm at, and the import and export business is a huge, you know, extremely huge business, which can cut down a lot of the, the, the cost and, and the speed of bringing in the produce, you name it, everything that needs to be brought over. So I don't know if that could be another possibility of probably approaching this business model because it's more realistic because you have already a certain projection from all these, you know, international companies instead of having to look for a client. These guys are basically going to be lining up for you to say, "Hey, can you be delivering?" And if you look at it, how Uber kind of took it to the next approach where they're doing the flight lines now with the semi-trucks, right? Doing over freight lines. And I think this, this could be a good potential to do it more on the logistics side instead of regular, you know, clients.
