Yellow Air Taxi Explained

Airline:Yellow Air Taxi
Fleet Size:1
Destinations:4
Iata:Y0
Icao:EMJ
Callsign:LIGHT HOUSE
Parent:Friendship Airways
Founded:2003
Headquarters:Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Key People:Christopher Behnam (CEO)

Yellow Air Taxi (a marketing name of Friendship Airways) was an air taxi airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It operated on-demand passenger services in the Southeast, Florida, the Caribbean and, the Bahamas. YAT grew from a small operation out of Pompano Beach to a fleet of four Cessna 402Cs, all painted in yellow with a white/black checkerboard tail.[1] The carrier had some issues with the US DOT, bordering on offering scheduled service as a charter airline.[2] Once legal to fly more than four flights a week, YAT expanded to Naples & Key West, along with offering three flights a day to Marsh Harbour and Treasure Cay from Ft. Lauderdale. Miami service was attempted in 2009.

YAT started being affected by the high-seasonality of both the Florida Keys and Bahamas and the carrier relinquished their scheduled authority in 2009. Yellow Air Taxi has since gone out of business. On February 18, 2011, an involuntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7 was filed against Friendship Airways Inc.[3]

Destinations

Florida

Previous destinations

Fleet

The Yellow Air Taxi fleet consists of the following aircraft as of July 2010:[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: July 19, 2007. For this taxi, the sky is the limit. December 21, 2021. Naples Daily News.
  2. see U.S. DOT docket OST-2005-20077
  3. Web site: Friendship Airways Inc - Company Profile and News. https://web.archive.org/web/20121013134849/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=127680532. dead. October 13, 2012.
  4. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/nameSQL.asp?nametxt=Friendship+Airways&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind.y=0&sort_option=5 FAA Aircraft Register - Friendship Airways