>Because it would be awesome to charter small flights from an app to jump to a nearby city. I doubt the cost of a pilot's time alone is a big enough factor to

>Because it would be awesome to charter small flights from an app to jump to a nearby city. I doubt the cost of a pilot's time alone is a big enough factor to meaningfully change the number of people with access to chartered flights. The other costs (hours of plane time, fuel, ramp fee, parking fees, maintenance) probably dwarf pilot time as a percentage of total cost. And you're either pushing the absolute unreliability of aviation [0] to the customers who are now trapped in a different city, or they're paying even more to the app to have backup plans ready to roll. [0] Commercial aviation deals at a scale that can absorb flights that don't keep their plan. You go to the counter, get rebooked, and angrily eat some shitty fast food. When something goes wrong on a private flight, you're pacing around on the tarmac at 1 am, 3 states away from home and have to be at work in the morning.