Brazilian On-Demand Marketplace Flapper Announces Plans to Launch Mexico Operations in Q2 2020

Flapper, considered the first boutique private airline in Brazil, has announced its intention to open Mexican operations in the second quarter of 2020. The company cites a large domestic market and low utilization of technology as the key motives behind selecting Mexico as its first international market. Paul Malicki, Flapper's CEO, is confident that it will leave a permanent positive impact on the local business aviation scene. Mexican market is attractive for us for a number of reasons, including large domestic fleet, proximity to the US and an existence of a private aviation hub in Toluca Airport, says Malicki. At the same time the faces the same challenges as Brazil, with little utilization of technology and large fragmentation of air taxi segment. Our intention is to turn private aviation into the mainstream travel option and increase the size of the existing market - he continued.