The Taxijet concept was conceived at 36,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean in the winter of 2004 as an alternative to an airline pilot career that ended abruptly.  The company was founded by Roger Burton of Union, Missouri in January 2005 and the Taxijet.com web site was first published in March 2005.  

Roger earned his Private Pilot certificate in 1982 and has since flown the A-4 Skyhawk and AV-8B Harrier for the U.S. Marine Corps. He began his military career as an Electrician's Mate in the nuclear power Navy.  He received a Navy ROTC scholarship to Oregon State University with a major in Computer Science.   He participated in Desert Storm and served in numerous billets including Forward Air Controller, Legal Officer, Administrative Officer, Intelligence Officer, Maintenance Safety Officer and Assistant Operations Officer.  After honorable separation from the Marine Corps he started his civilian career as a flight instructor and charter pilot, flying the Cessna 421B, for Lenair Aviation in Orange County California, (CFI/CFII/MEI/ATP).  Roger flew the Canadair Regional Jet for Atlantic Coast Airlines but was furloughed when ACA broke its ties with United Airlines and became Independence Air.  He flew the Boeing 757 for American Trans Air but was furloughed when ATA began the downward spiral to bankruptcy.  His tale of furlough is a common story in the airline industry but Roger shifted his focus to the coming revolution in air travel and created Taxijet as his third career.

Our mission is to facilitate the coming revolution in air travel.  Integral to this mission is the goal to provide a flexible and easy to use online service to coordinate on demand air travel.    We are eager to embrace the next generation of air travel from its inception and build Taxijet.com into the finest system of it's kind on the world wide web. 

Through our commitment, experience, and expertise Taxijet is working to establish business relationships with customers that will last a lifetime!

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"You have a very presentable and user-friendly system."

Thanks again,

William K. Bagshaw    PRESIDENT, AIR SANTA BARBARA (AirSB.com)

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“Cool site and great thinking.  Good luck and we will certainly try this again.”

 Wally

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Thank you for all your work on our behalf ... we will contact you on future occasions.  I appreciate the service that you are providing, and being a pilot myself I certainly can see the growing need and usefulness of your service in the future!

Joseph E. Greene, III
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