{"id":8328,"date":"2017-04-24T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:18:07","slug":"charter-operator-success-lofty-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/charter-operator-success-lofty-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Jet Charter Operator In Unlikely Location has Success, Lofty Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"blox-asset-title\"><span class=\"blox-headline entry-title\">ATI Jet Charter Service Aims High<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><em>By David Crowder, El Paso Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>El Paso has one high-flying charter service. Using Lear jets that take off from El Paso International Airport, ATI Jet hauls Hollywood stars, doctors and business executives around the U.S., Canada and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>A renowned pilot himself, ATI Jet owner Lyle Byrum has lofty ambitions to turn the company into a national force with a fleet of 100 planes by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s got a ways to go.<\/p>\n<p>Today, ATI Jet has eight, sleek Lears in service, 22 pilots, more than 400 regular customers and a lot more occasional passengers, according to Byrum. That makes the company one of the larger charter services in the Southwest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8329\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Private-Jet-Fleet-ATI.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8329\" class=\"wp-image-8329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Private-Jet-Fleet-ATI.jpg?resize=610%2C407\" alt=\"ATI Jet private fleet of charter Learjets.\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Private-Jet-Fleet-ATI.jpg?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Private-Jet-Fleet-ATI.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Private-Jet-Fleet-ATI.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ATI Jet private fleet of charter Learjets. Photo. Photo by Jorge Salgado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Lear 60 is the world\u2019s fastest, highest-flying midsize jet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an expensive way to get around. Booking one of the eight-seat speedsters for the 3\u00bd-hour, 2,000-mile flight to Washington, D.C., and back will cost about $30,000, Byrum said.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"border: 1px solid navy; padding: 10px; margin: 5px; clear: both; float: right; width: 190px; text-align: center;\"><em>ATI Jet&#8217;s full fleet of 8 charter Learjets, with aircraft and operator details, is available in <a href=\"http:\/\/flightlistpro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FlightList PRO<\/a>.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>When former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher needed to come to El Paso in 1990 to address the Republican Party, he picked her up in Dallas and says she insisted that he accompany her on the trip back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s driven our charter business has been security; you don\u2019t have to worry about security,\u201d Byrum said. \u201cNo. 2, you can get here five minutes before you want to leave or an hour later. You\u2019re not tied to schedules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ATI\u2019s more recent big-name passengers include the queen of Jordan, Tommy Lee Jones, Dennis and Randy Quaid and Julia Roberts, according to Byrum.<\/p>\n<p>ATI Jet\u2019s repeat customers come from just about everywhere \u2013 except El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only have 24 customers here in El Paso,\u201d he said. \u201cA few years ago there was a study done and we were No. 3 in the country doing charters to Mexico. A lot of people like to use us because we know our way around.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8331\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Learjet-60-ATI.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8331\" class=\"wp-image-8331\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Learjet-60-ATI.jpg?resize=610%2C407\" alt=\"ATI Jet's Lyle Byrum in the Learjet 60\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Learjet-60-ATI.jpg?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Learjet-60-ATI.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Learjet-60-ATI.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ATI Jet&#8217;s Lyle Byrum in the Learjet 60.\u00a0Photo by Jorge Salgado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Byrum talks a big game, but as one close acquaintance said, \u201cHe\u2019s the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s an Ysleta High School graduate whose family owned the second largest crane company in the Southwest in the 1960s and 1970s, Byrum Crane and Rigging. He became its general manager before his parents sold the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally erected half of Cielo Vista Mall,\u201d Byrum remembers.<\/p>\n<p>Out of a job, he headed off to college, learned how to fly, became an instructor and took over a flying school and Cessna dealer in Midland. He\u2019s been in aviation since, doing everything from helping the FAA write regulations to performing crazy stunts for movies.<\/p>\n<p>His business ventures also included Quicksilver Enterprises, a publicly held company that became the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of ultralight aircraft from 1980 to 1996, selling more than 12,000 aircraft worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Byrum made big money doing movies and TV as a Hollywood stunt pilot, stunt man and actor. He has the movie-set publicity photos with stars on the walls at ATI Jet\u2019s headquarters to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I have been in more movies than any native-born El Pasoan other than Debbie Reynolds, and maybe her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those movies and TV shows include \u201cArizona Dream\u201d with Fay Dunaway and Johnny Depp, \u201cJackknife\u201d with Robert De Niro, \u201cCHIPS,\u201d \u201cFantasy Island,\u201d \u201cA-Team\u201d and \u201cRemington Steel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, there was \u201cHoward the Duck,\u201d the George Lucas-backed movie that bombed. In that movie, Byrum says he flew a plane through the open doors of a moving boxcar, tearing off the wings.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of computer graphics starting in the 1990s put a big dent in the demand for real air stunts, and after a series of business and personal setbacks, including the loss of his 12-year-old son to cancer, Byrum came back to El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided I wanted to come home,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why; I can\u2019t tell you. I didn\u2019t do anything for two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, I went to work for this company, and then I bought it from Doc. Nelson and the Lowenfields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Things were moving along for Byrum and ATI Jet\u2019s small fleet of Lears when he made the mistake of going into business with Bob Jones, the CEO of the nonprofit National Center for the Employment of the Disabled, or NCED, in 2003.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"border: 1px solid navy; padding: 10px; margin: 5px; clear: both; float: right; width: 190px; text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Those Who Know Use FlightList PRO.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>80% of those using FlightList PRO have arranged charters for more than 10 years, and a full 1\/4 &#8211; more than 20 years. \u00a0Just $90\/month, 30-day <a href=\"https:\/\/flightlistpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free trials<\/a> are currently available.\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Jones, a prominent El Pasoan who would later be convicted in the biggest corruption scandal and fraud against the federal government in El Paso history, put up $1 million to gain an interest in the company.<\/p>\n<p>It was supposed to be Jones\u2019 money, but it wasn\u2019t. It belonged to NCED, and the arrangement implicated Byrum and his company when the FBI learned about Jones\u2019 fraudulent investments in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>But the greater fraud occurred at NCED during the 12 years Jones controlled the nonprofit, which existed to provide jobs for the severely disabled under set-aside contracts to manufacture boxes, military uniforms and chemical protective ware.<\/p>\n<p>Under Jones, NCED had grown to 4,000 employees with contracts in excess of $200 million a year when it was reported that the vast majority of its employees weren\u2019t actually disabled.<\/p>\n<p>They were displaced clothing workers, many from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In all, the total of misspent federal dollars paid to NCED approached $2 billion, and Jones had amassed a fortune estimated at $50 million. He was convicted in 2011 and is still serving a 10-year sentence in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p>Byrum sued Jones, who had actually gained control of ATI Jet, for stock fraud, provided evidence to the FBI and was cleared of all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>NCED agreed to pay for the bills Jones had run up using ATI Jet to shuttle Army generals and others back and forth from Washington and around the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor three years, he wasn\u2019t paying me for what he was doing,\u201d Byrum said. \u201cThe bill just got bigger and bigger. I barely survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter it was all over, I think I was the only guy that got paid back, and I got paid every penny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Byrum said ATI Jet has bounced back, allowing him to buy two newer Lear 60 jets recently and to expand by using what he calls the Southwest Airlines model \u2013 using one type of aircraft requiring the same parts and training for pilots and mechanics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8330\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ATI-Jet-3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8330\" class=\"wp-image-8330\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ATI-Jet-3.jpg?resize=610%2C407\" alt=\"ATI Jet's Learjet 60 cabin\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ATI-Jet-3.jpg?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ATI-Jet-3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ATI-Jet-3.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ATI Jet&#8217;s Learjet 60 cabin. \u00a0Photo by Jorge Salgado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He\u2019s also kept up his interest in very fast cars and drag racing, which he still does at the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p>He owns El Paso Motorplex with a dirt track and drag-strip near Socorro where he was planning to add a 2-mile, $2 million paved road course for Formula 1 racing until last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to keep expanding ATI Jet instead, so we put the project on hold,\u201d Byrum said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he intends to go public with ATI-Jet to buy 90 more jets and become a national charter service, he said, \u201cI\u2019m planning to, yes \u2013 at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasoinc.com\/news\/local_news\/article_635d6516-237b-11e7-9c60-4b917dca4214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article in El Paso Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/flightlistpro.com\/\">FlightList PRO<\/a>\u00a0multi-search platform which includes all 16,631 charter aircraft and 3,419 charter operators worldwide. \u00a0FlightList PRO is used by the most successful and experienced\u00a0brokers and travel professionals in the industry; 80% of those using FlightList PRO have been arranging\u00a0charters more than 10 years, and a full 1\/4 &#8211; more than 20 years. \u00a0Currently 30-day <a href=\"https:\/\/flightlistpro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free trials<\/a> are available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/flightlistpro.com\/private-jet-charter\">Air Charter Alerts<\/a> by FlightList PRO, are the latest announcements in the private air charter industry about operators, brokers and charter aircraft, and geared towards active participants in the industry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With lofty ambitions to turn the company into a national force with a fleet of 100 planes by 2023, ATI Jet owner Lyle Byrum, a renowned pilot himself, has got a ways to go.<\/p>\n<p>Today, ATI Jet has eight, sleek Lears in service, 22 pilots, more than 400 regular customers and a lot more occasional passengers, according to Byrum. That makes the company one of the larger charter services in the Southwest.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso-based ATI Jet is one high-flying charter service. Using Lear jets that take off from El Paso International Airport, ATI Jet hauls Hollywood stars, doctors and business executives around the U.S., Canada and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>ATI Jet\u2019s repeat customers come from just about everywhere \u2013 except El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only have 24 customers here in El Paso,\u201d he said. \u201cA few years ago there was a study done and we were No. 3 in the country doing charters to Mexico. 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Today, ATI Jet has eight, sleek Lears in service, 22 pilots, more than 400 regular customers and a lot more occasional passengers, according to Byrum. That makes the company one of the larger charter services in the Southwest.  The El Paso-based ATI Jet is one high-flying charter service. Using Lear jets that take off from El Paso International Airport, ATI Jet hauls Hollywood stars, doctors and business executives around the U.S., Canada and Latin America.  ATI Jet\u2019s repeat customers come from just about everywhere \u2013 except El Paso.  \u201cWe only have 24 customers here in El Paso,\u201d he said. \u201cA few years ago there was a study done and we were No. 3 in the country doing charters to Mexico. 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