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Flightlite is very much about tracking what's in the air right now (visiting relative, the plane you'll be departing on, previewing a route, just being a plane(

Flightlite is very much about tracking what's in the air right now (visiting relative, the plane you'll be departing on, previewing a route, just being a plane(plain!) nerd, etc) :) I've definitely thought about integrating pricing information / ticket affiliation stuff. But it is a personal project, and unless it was getting enough of the right kind of traffic it wouldn't be worth it as I couldn't afford to market etc effectively.

phlux 16y ago
I had some thoughts on sponsorship: Make it so you can brand a version of the site. e.g. build a verrsion for Virgin America only flights. Make it embbedable widget. License it to the airlines as a widget they can give the link to any affiliate partner - either ticket sales or marketing affiliates. The affiliates can have a "where is virgin flight now" widgets embedded into any page with a single embedd-link. Do this through embedly? Copyright whatever you can about it. Make it so that you can see "all flights out of SFO/into SFO" by that carrier - then list the tickets available for each of the flights/destinations in the next few days. etc.. etc..
- whiskers 16y ago
  Phlux - the per airline branding is exactly something I had thought of - I'm looking for a contact in the industry who could help make it happen :) Yes it would be great to be the de facto widget for airlines to show their fleet status etc - in fact that would be the dream! Nice concept :)
  - phlux 16y ago
    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ravi-simhambhatla/1/283/982 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ravi-simhambhatla/1/283/982 http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickwysong http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickwysong Search your contacts for intros. I have a shared connection with Ravi - whom I could ask to connect you. But you need to build the example first - then SHOW them that it is already running.
    - whiskers 16y ago
      phlux - you're awesome. It's really unfortunate timing, I have guests arriving to spend the weekend here in about 10 minutes but can we talk further by e-mail? jon@flightlite.com. I'll try to get something together tomorrow if you think they might be interested. I'm happy to completely co-brand the site for the right sponsor.

phlux 16y ago

I had some thoughts on sponsorship: Make it so you can brand a version of the site. e.g. build a verrsion for Virgin America only flights. Make it embbedable widget. License it to the airlines as a widget they can give the link to any affiliate partner - either ticket sales or marketing affiliates. The affiliates can have a "where is virgin flight now" widgets embedded into any page with a single embedd-link. Do this through embedly? Copyright whatever you can about it. Make it so that you can see "all flights out of SFO/into SFO" by that carrier - then list the tickets available for each of the flights/destinations in the next few days. etc.. etc..

whiskers 16y ago
Phlux - the per airline branding is exactly something I had thought of - I'm looking for a contact in the industry who could help make it happen :) Yes it would be great to be the de facto widget for airlines to show their fleet status etc - in fact that would be the dream! Nice concept :)
- phlux 16y ago
  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ravi-simhambhatla/1/283/982 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ravi-simhambhatla/1/283/982 http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickwysong http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickwysong Search your contacts for intros. I have a shared connection with Ravi - whom I could ask to connect you. But you need to build the example first - then SHOW them that it is already running.
  - whiskers 16y ago
    phlux - you're awesome. It's really unfortunate timing, I have guests arriving to spend the weekend here in about 10 minutes but can we talk further by e-mail? jon@flightlite.com. I'll try to get something together tomorrow if you think they might be interested. I'm happy to completely co-brand the site for the right sponsor.