Company
Philipp Schaer is the current CEO of MiGFlug. [10] He co-founded the company in 2004, [11] with another student at the University of Zurich. [12] They initially got the idea during a trip to Moscow, when bumping into a fighter pilot and convincing him to take them for a ride. [13] A few days later that pilot smuggled them into a Russian airbase and took off with both of them. Later that year, the pair found a legal way to offer those flights in Russia using aircraft such as a Sukhoi Su-30 and the then-fastest fighter jet ever built, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25. [14] The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, [15] and registered in the commercial register of Lucerne. [16] MiGFlug's main business is offering flights in military fighter jets for civilians, including supersonic flights. [17] It started with jet flights from Ramenskoye Airport, Russia. [18] MiGFlug has been shown on Lonely Planet's Year of Adventures with Ben Fogle, [19] [20] [21] and broadcast on BBC. A number of notable passengers have flown in one of the company's fighter jets, including Anthony Bourdain, [22] Zoltán Báthory, [23] Joel Kinnaman, Miss India 2010 Manasvi Mamgai, [24] TyDi, [25] Josh Cartu, [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, [32] Alan Walker, Jake Paul, [33] Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Joko Winterscheidt, Jan Marsalek, [34] Roberto Chevalier [35] [36] and Pauline Nordin. [37]
Several of MiGFlug's jets and pilots have appeared in movies, TV, and advertisements. For example, an L-39 appeared in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies in the opening scene. [38] MiGFlug has produced several Galileo episodes for ProSieben, as well as a zero gravity flight for Joko gegen Klaas . [39] Porsche, [40] Mercedes-Benz [41] Diesel, OnePlus, [42] IGN, [43] and Swiss diary company Emmi AG [44] produced advertisements or advertorials with MiGFlug.
MiGFlug's subsidiary GoAviator specializes in vintage flights, for example in warbirds and biplanes. [45] [46] MiGFlug also has a popular blog, covering aviation topics, with a focus on military aviation. [47]
Since 2015, MiGFlug has offered formation jet flights with up to six passengers flying at the same time in close formation in an L-39. [48]
In some locations MiGFlug also offers flights to customers in wheelchairs, who enter the L-39 jets with the help of a forklift. [49]
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