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About direct2

Direct2 is a private aviation company that holds a FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate and we do three things: we fly on-demand charter, we manage aircraft on behalf of private owners, and we partner with medical logistics companies to move organs when the clock is ticking. Direct2 keeps maintenance leadership, flight coordination, crew training and safety oversight in-house rather than farming them out, and our operations and sales desk is staffed around the clock. We look forward to helping you with solutions for your aviation needs.

Although we now criss cross the country, Direct2 operates from it's Bend, Oregon headquarters. That's not a coincidence. The Pacific Northwest is defined by the kinds of aviation connections that we love — mountain communities, remote strips, distances that look manageable on a map and aren't. We fly modern, well-maintained aircraft, with pilots who are also partners in the business, which means there is never a gap between the person responsible for your safety and the person invested in the outcome.

We look forward to helping you with solutions for your aviation needs.

our team

Toby woods

founder & chief executive officer

Toby founded Direct2 around a simple idea: private aviation works better when the people making the promises are close to the people operating the aircraft. In addition to leading the company, Toby serves as Direct2’s FAA Part 135 Director of Operations. He is an Airline Transport Pilot, company flight instructor, and member of the NBAA Emerging Technologies Committee. When he isn’t flying or building Direct2, you’ll usually find him skiing, trail running, or on a bike.

Sam Linton

chief financial officer

Sam oversees the day-to-day operation of Direct2, bringing together flight operations, maintenance, crew availability, aircraft scheduling, client commitments, and regulatory requirements. As both a pilot and operational leader, he brings a cockpit perspective to the decisions made behind every flight and works across departments to ensure the operation remains safe, coordinated, and dependable. Sam helps translate Direct2’s operational standards into the systems and decisions that keep the company running efficiently, while ensuring commercial priorities never come at the expense of safety or regulatory compliance.

Peter Madden

Director of maintenance

Peter leads Direct2’s maintenance and airworthiness program and is responsible for ensuring aircraft operating on the Direct2 certificate meet the company’s standards for safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance. As both a pilot and maintenance leader, he brings an operational perspective to aircraft maintenance, understanding not only what keeps an aircraft airworthy, but what crews need from the aircraft they fly. Peter’s responsibility is ultimately straightforward and absolute: determining whether an aircraft is airworthy and ready to fly. That decision remains a maintenance and safety decision, never a commercial one.

Scott Johnson

Chief Pilot

Scott leads Direct2’s pilot group and is responsible for the standards, training, and operational discipline behind every flight. As an active pilot himself, he oversees pilot hiring, qualifications, training, checking, currency, and ongoing performance while working closely with operations and maintenance to ensure crews and aircraft are prepared for each mission. He plays a central role in Direct2’s safety culture, reinforcing sound aeronautical decision-making, regulatory compliance, and consistent operating standards across the fleet. His responsibility extends beyond putting qualified pilots in the cockpit, it is ensuring they have the training, judgment, and support to operate safely and professionally every time they fly.

Jenna LaFlamme

director of charter sales

Director of Revenue Jenna leads Direct2’s charter sales and revenue strategy, connecting client demand with the aircraft, pricing, and operational capacity behind every trip. She oversees the charter experience from initial inquiry through completed flight while developing the relationships, systems, and commercial strategy driving Direct2’s growth. Working directly alongside the company’s pilots and operational leadership keeps sales close to the operation and clients close to the people actually responsible for their flight.

Founder’s note

The charter industry has a problem with distance. Not physical distance. The kind that grows between the person paying for a flight and the person flying it. Platforms. Brokers. Call centers. Each one adding a layer of friction, a margin, a reason why no one is quite accountable for what actually happens on the day.

I didn't want to build that. I wanted to build the version of private aviation here the person who answers knows your name, your schedule, what you've flown before, and what you care about. Where accountability doesn't get distributed it lives with with the people who hold the certificates and operate your flights — OUR team.

Although we now criss cross the country, Direct2 operates from it's Bend, Oregon headquearters. That's not a coincidence. The Pacific Northwest is defined by the kinds of aviation connections that I love — mountain communities, remote strips, distances that look manageable on a map and aren't.

We fly modern, well-maintained aircraft, with pilots who are also owners, which means there is never a gap between the person responsible for your safety and the person invested in the outcome.

This is a small operation by design. Not because we lack ambition — because I believe that scale is where service goes to die. When you call Direct2, you're calling the operation, not a sales team. When we fly you somewhere, we mean it.

Aviation gave me the ability to compress the world for myself. Direct2 is my attempt to give that to other people.

Toby Woods