News Release

Platoon Aviation expands PC-24 ranks

This year German business charter operator Platoon Aviation takes delivery of its seventh and eighth Pilatus PC-24, D-COPS and D-COIN.

Platoon started with two PC-24 in 2021, taking delivery before the summer season. Fast forward to 2024, Platoon now has eight PC-24, which will serve the European charter market. The decision to go ahead with the PC-24 stems from the company's investor's experience with Pilatus, its heritage as a top OEM on the market and as an opportunity to begin a new company with a newly established product.

Platoon has acquired two PC-24s each year since 2021, and four more PC-24 are to arrive by 2026 (two in 2025 and two more in 2026), bringing the eventual total up to 12 of the type. The aircraft operate on a “floating fleet” model, with no fixed home base across Europe. This enables the Platoon to cover more of the European market and offer competitive pricing, mainly due to shorter positioning flights. Platoon serves the B2B market, meaning it works with the broker community exclusively and works in tandem with the broker to deliver a stellar level of service to its clientele.

The aircraft are all identical internally with eight individual seats and the same styling. Having a “mono-fleet” offers total peace of mind for clientele when they book with Platoon, along with benefitting its commercial team in combining well suited flights together more easily.

With its flat floor, voluminous cabin, large windows and huge cargo hold the PC-24 has comfortably found its own niche against other similar aircraft in its category. The aircraft's runway performance is also impressive; arrival into short airfields such as Oxford and Florence (even in the wet) prove no major challenge. This enables Platoon to offer an aircraft with maximum versatility that can cater to a wider variety of clients and embed itself as a popular operator on the charter market.

Platoon will be focusing on the European charter market in the years to come, with a particular focus on leisure travel. The major hotspots will be across the Mediterranean, with most of the traffic originating out of the UK, Netherlands and Germany. In the years ahead Platoon looks to expand its fleet with larger aircraft capable of performing longer flights with larger passenger capacity, which will serve another tranche of the charter market and further Platoon's vision to become the leading charter operator on the airline charter market.