Posted on 1/13/2021
When Covid-19 first made its way to the U.S. early last year, Indianapolis-based TxJet, like other charter operations, found itself in a demand slump. But it was a momentary pause because TxJet’s primary cargo is human organs and the medical teams that transplant them. "Tx" is an abbreviation used for organ transplantation in medical parlance.
“[It] was a challenge for us,” said TxJet COO Steve Johnson. “A lot of transplant programs, in the beginning, were frankly not transplanting because we didn’t understand the virus, we didn’t understand how we were safely going to transplant people. [But] we flew, and we kept flying [and] we’ve been able to come through this very well.”
Started in 2014 with one Cessna ...