WKChamber Investigates O’Hare Air Taxi Possibilities
The Warsaw/Kosciusko County Chamber of Commerce and it’s partners in the community have been approached by an entity that is exploring the possibility of launching an air taxi service between Warsaw Municipal Airport and O’Hare International Airport.
According to a survey sent to Chamber members, the Chamber is currently gathering information from it’s members to help determine the demand for this type of service.
The Chamber stated that the preliminary operating assumptions for the service are for morning and afternoon departures from Warsaw in order to maximize connections at O’Hare. Flight time is expected to be about 40 minutes on a Piper Navajo-class airplane, an eight to ten passenger, twin engine, cabin class plane common to small feeder operations.
The Chamber also noted that if you’ve flown charter or corporate to O’Hare, the process would be the same. Passengers would board in Warsaw, arrive at a private terminal at O’Hare and would then be shuttled to the main terminal where they would check in for a commercial flight and clear security as normally done.
According to the chamber, because the service would operate under the FAA’s charter regulations (not commercial regulations), passengers could essentially walk onto the plane just before departure in Warsaw or at O’Hare. The Chamber stated that the air taxi service could be used not just for connections, but also for point-to-point travel if doing business in the Chicago area.
The operator of this service would be a licensed charter operator that is subject to applicable FAA regulations.