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The purpose of this paper is to introduce air taxi operations as a system-of-systems type problem. Five primary traits, operational and managerial independence, geographical distribution, emergent behavior, networks, and trans-domain are highlighted since they call attention to a network-of-systems dynamic behavior focus as opposed to an individual system, static behavior focus. More specifically, this paper tries to extend work done by Mane and Crossley1 in an attempt to capture a more realistic air taxi operation via agentbased modeling using Matlab. Our interest is to understand which particular mixture of aircraft types, as selected for our preliminary analysis, are most viable for profitable air taxi operations between random city pairs given emergent business traveler demands. Mane and Crossley1 identified the Eclipse 500 and Cirrus SR-22 as two of the aircraft most promising for air taxi operations. However, our results revealed the Piper Meridian, Daher-Sacota TBM 850, and Pilatus PC-12/47 single engine turbo-props as the most efficacious aircraft.