Ultimate Air Shuttle is an

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based in

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. It is the operating name of Ultimate Jetcharters LLC, an FAR Part 135

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carrier. Ultimate Air Shuttle previously operated public charter flights on a published schedule, serving key business routes from

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that were reduced by

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and Comair. The airline had to suspend operations from late 2020 to mid-2021 and again from December 16, 2021, due to the impact of the

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pandemic on business travel.

History

Ultimate Air Shuttle started operations in 2009 shortly after the merger of

and

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in an attempt to serve destinations on a time driven basis. The airline launched with flights to New York and soon expanded to Chicago in 2010. In 2012, Detroit and Washington, D.C., were added as destinations, but the Detroit route was discontinued later that year and the Washington, D.C., route was switched to Charlotte in 2013. On May 12, 2015, Ultimate Air Shuttle announced that it would start flying seasonal service to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Westhampton Beach, New York; and from Morristown, New Jersey. After a few months of service, the Westhampton Beach destination was cancelled due to a lack of demand. The airline has expressed interest in future markets, such as Indianapolis, Memphis, and Nashville; however, they have yet to be announced as actually starting. In October 2015, Ultimate began service to Cleveland, while additionally announcing that it would add flights to

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beginning in 2016. Also, flights to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport (Atlanta) and

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were indicated as the next cities with service to be added in the coming year. In May 2016, Ultimate Air Shuttle announced it would move its CVG flights to LUK in order to add an extra daily flight to Chicago-MDW and New York-MMU; however, planned flights to TEB have been delayed. In January 2017, Ultimate Air Shuttle announced that it plans to launch flights from Lunken to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport (Atlanta). Parent company Ultimate Jetcharters formerly operated flights for OneJet until that company suspended operations in August 2018; OneJet had attempted to acquire Ultimate Jetcharters and Ultimate Air Shuttle but the deal fell through and Ultimate terminated the flights. Ultimate Jetcharters later operated flights for

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in the winter of 2018–2019 but Taos Air changed operators for the 2019–2020 winter season. In mid 2020, Ultimate Air Shuttle suspended scheduled service due to travel restrictions resulting from the

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. Service was briefly resumed in the summer, but was suspended again from September until an unspecified date in early 2021 because business travel had not recovered adequately. Operations were restored in the second half of 2021, but the airline announced it would suspend flights again from December 16 into 2022 due to the continuing effects that the pandemic had on business travel.

Destinations

Ultimate Air Shuttle suspended all travel on December 16, 2021, due to the continued effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on business travel. In September 2022 they began offering private shuttle service to Martha's Vineyard to pre-qualified refugees. Until then, Ultimate Air Shuttle provided service to the following locations:

Former Destinations

Fleet

The Ultimate Air Shuttle fleet:

References

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