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Hanseo Aerospace is to launch an air taxi service after winning an air operator's certificate from the Ministry of Land and Maritime Affairs for the operation of a chartered plane rental service. The charter fee will be around W2 million (US$1=W948) an hour. The company will first employ one 18-seat Beechcraft-1900D turboprop. Meeting customers' demand to move from a specific airport to another on their own schedule, it will be the first air taxi service here.
Korean Air rents a 14-seat Gulf Stream-IV for W4 million per hour, but Hanseo is the first company to specialize in charter plane rental. A spokesman for the company predicted that businesspeople and entertainers will use the service as a fast means of transport. Hanseo Aerospace is a joint venture between Hanseo University and a private company. With its own runway and hangar in Taean, South Chungcheong Province, Hanseo is engaged in helicopter operation, pilot training and plane maintenance.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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