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Hello, everyone, and welcome to At Barons. I I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest Thomas

Floor who is the chairman and founder of Vista. Thomas, great to see it. Great to see you.

It's good to be here. So I want to ask you about your company of course, which is the owner of VistaJet.

Tell us about VistaJet and the various other businesses that you have.

Well, look, I got into business aviation really by being a quite frustrated client of this industry.

And that was about 21 years ago. And what I saw was it was actually either a random charter opportunity where we wouldn't know what you get until you arrive at the airport,

or otherwise you had to buy a full airplane or a fraction of an airplane.

And all that kind of like wasn't intuitively making sense to me.

It just wanted to fly, but I wanted to make sure that I get

exactly what I know and what I understand as a product. And think about any other industry,

right? Any hotel industry at the very top end, the presidential suite. I mean, you're making

a decision for $10,000, $15,000 and you would make it absolutely sure that you know what you're getting, and the

quality of the product and so on and so forth.

In this industry, unless you owned a full airplane, you wouldn't know what you get, and

that didn't make any sense to me.

And you're selling to the wealthiest and most influential people.

So that's what Vista came about, and I said, okay, why don't we build a fleet of absolutely

identical airplanes all around the world and give clients access to it with a simple

subscription program.

Right.

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