JetSetGo’s New SkyShuttle Takes Off Ahead of Uber in India’s Competitive Air Taxi Market
Photo Caption: Kanika Tekriwal, founder of JetSetGo, launches SkyShuttle for “pure learnings” of what to do in future
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India is ideal for aerial taxi services, and while Uber decides if that’s where its first Uber Air international city will be, local startup JetSetGo simply gets going with a new SkyShuttle service that will provide it with insights for future air mobility.
While Uber has initiated talks with the India government about the possibility of doing flying taxi services within the country, local player JetSetGo Aviation has launched a more humble first step: SkyShuttle is offering scheduled business jet and helicopter flights between and within cities in India.
JetSetGo is by no means the unicorn Uber is, but in four years of operation, the startup has earned recognition as the "Uber of Indian skies." Breaking through the opaque private jet industry dominated by offline brokers, the company aggregates often-idle jets and helicopters of private owners, maintains these aircrafts and improves their utilization by leasing them out through its online platform.
The new SkyShuttle started in late September with twice-daily jet shuttle between Mumbai and Bengaluru, and twice-daily heli shuttle from Juhu airport, located in an upmarket residential suburb of Mumbai, to two industrial towns, Tarapur wit
