With scheduled flights significantly reduced and some airlines grounding their entire fleets for the foreseeable future, the rapid support that on-demand charter can provide is coming to the fore. Many critical transport requirements can only be fulfilled by unscheduled charter flights, particularly where international embassy teams need to repatriate citizens, sometimes in the face of medical emergencies and often where …
Earn Double Alto Points Flying Europe’s Most Popular Routes
Conscious of the impact of our industry on the environment, we have committed to carbon offset every Victor booked flight by a minimum of 200%, at no extra cost to you. For the remainder of the year, on every charter on Europe’s most popular intercity routes, we are also offering double Victor Alto frequent-flier points. From Geneva to London for meetings, or London to …
Victor makes the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track, again!
Published annually in The Sunday Times, the Tech Track 100 listing is the authoritative barometer of Britain’s fastest growing tech companies. Based on sales growth over the last three years, each year the league table shines a spotlight on Britain’s most entrepreneurial and dynamic private tech companies, standing as a bellwether for the shift to self-service tech platforms. We’re delighted …
Fly with Purpose: Victor Launches Climate Action Strategy
At Victor we are not content with becoming one of Europe’s fastest growing private jet charter companies. We have been working hard over the past 12 months to address the challenge of how flying can fit in a low-carbon future. Last year we introduced a Carbon Offset Scheme which saw 25% of our bookings flying carbon neutral. It was a …
Introducing Victor Referrals
At Victor, we don’t stand still. Over the last 12 months, our commitment to innovation has resulted in the introduction of the private aviation industry’s first-to-market carbon-reduction programme. Carbon reduction was quickly followed by our pioneering loyalty programme Alto, another first for the industry and a programme that we will shortly be expanding to include Alto Partners to ensure our …
Victor Collects Latest Tech Track 100 Award
The team blogged a few weeks back to confirm Victor’s fourth consecutive year in the Hiscox Sunday Times Tech Track 100. I’d like to personally follow-up on that after an amazing dinner last night to officially collect our award. The Tech Track 100 is a powerful barometer of the UK’s most dynamic private tech companies and I am again humbled …
Renaissance plan
09/03/2018 Piaggio Aerospace Avanti Evo Imagine: you’re James Bond, making a fast getaway from the scene of a hair-raising hit job. Sprinting towards the (conveniently placed) nearby runway, with SPECTRE’s henchmen in hot pursuit, you’re confronted with a couple of clapped-out helicopters (no, too rusty, can’t take the risk), an antique cropduster that hasn’t seen service since 1923… and over …
First to the Finnish Line
The countdown to Europe’s premier start-up event and global gathering of tech talent is on Slush 30th Nov – 01st Dec 2017 Helsinki, Finland One of the biggest events in the tech-world calendar, last year’s Slush played host to 2,300 start-ups, 1,100 investors and 600 journalists from 130 countries, cementing its reputation as the ultimate industry networking event on the …
Fast Forward
For VICTOR’s Clive Jackson, technological advancement needn’t come at the expense of customer service. Ask yourself: by how much will technology change our lives over the next 10, 20, 30 years? The current pace of innovation is breathtaking. Most of us are already living in a semi-smart home in which we can control our entertainment, heating and lighting, and pay …
Challenge Accepted
The designer Martin Kemp explains how he refitted a Bombardier Challenger 604 from the inside out. The Challenger is the third jet I have designed although the second we have done at my company MKD. We were asked to undertake the project by an existing client who had seen an earlier plane we had executed; they wanted something similar but …