Stratajet

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Stratajet
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryAviation
Founded2011
FounderJonathan Nicol
Headquarters
London
,
England
Key people
Jonathan Nicol, Founder & CEO
Number of employees
50
Parent Oxis Aviation Ltd
Website www.stratajet.com

Stratajet is an online private jet booking company, servicing 44 countries in Europe and the United States. [1]

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The company was owned by Oxis Aviation Ltd. [2] Its headquarters are in Faringdon in London with an office in Sacramento, California. It is a member of aviation industry bodies BACA [3] and EBAA. [4]

History

Stratajet launched in April 2016 [5] [6] via Stratajet.com and an iOS app. [7] It offers firm-bookable fares for private jets, rather than quotes or estimates. [8]

The company was founded in 2011 by former military officer and pilot Jonathan Nicol. It took him five years to develop the technology needed to calculate the cost of a private jet without manual input. [9]

Stratajet partners with international aircraft operators, including Centreline, [10] ASL JetNetherlands, [11] and Fixed Base Operators such as Jetex Flight Support [12] [13] and TAG Aviation [14] to deliver its services to customers.

In May 2016, Stratajet received an $8 million round of funding, led by Octopus Ventures. [15]

In May 2017, Stratajet won The Sapphire Pegasus Award in the “Aircraft Broker” category. [16]

In May 2017, Stratajet was included in "The Leap 100 2017", an annual list published in City A.M., identifying the UK's most exciting and fastest growing companies. [17]

Stratajet ranked fifth in the "Deloitte Tech Fast 50 2017" [18] [19] (an acknowledgement of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK), [20] with a growth rate of 3,634% over four years. In April 2018, the company ranked 22nd in The FT 1000, a list published by the Financial Times that ranks Europe's fastest-growing companies. [21]

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