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The problem with this seems that the only people who will buy this are the people who spend more than $1k/mo on flights, so they'll end up having a really hard

The problem with this seems that the only people who will buy this are the people who spend more than $1k/mo on flights, so they'll end up having a really hard time making money. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

jluan 15y ago
If I'm not mistaken, a decent chunk of expense for commercial airlines is in fees to have a gate and terminal area for their aircraft. Here, they will probably fly out of the general aviation section of airports, where they'll get charged a small ramp fee at most.
- flashmedium 15y ago
  true, guess an admirals club is out of the question.
  - aaroneous 15y ago
    FBO's are more fun anyway ;)
botolo 15y ago
Well, I think the target customer is not the one who buys commercial flights but maybe the one who usually reserve private jets to fly to the Bay Area from LA. $1,000 for this kind of customer could be extremely interesting.
- sliverstorm 15y ago
  Yea, it's hard to imagine many private individuals would rack up $1,000 every month flying from Palo Alto to LA and back. I've seen $80 specials to fly Bay Area to LA, so you'd have to be making something like 5 round trips a month.
  - latchkey 15y ago
    The difference being that for $80 you're flying with the masses, dealing with TSA, etc...
    - sliverstorm 15y ago
      Of course, I'm just contemplating whether or not they would get many customers who would fly so much as to lose the company money.
  - kooshball 15y ago
    >I've seen $80 specials to fly Bay Area to LA, so you'd have to be making something like 5 round trips a month. The people willing to pay 1k/month for this are probably not in the group of people looking for $80 specials.
  - saryant 15y ago
    Head over to Flyertalk.com. It's more common than you think. Those specials are also inflexible and require either advance planning or a lucky weekend special. The target market for something like this is frequent fliers who need complete flexibility.
  - ajaimk 15y ago
    This is targeted towards not the $80 specials people but the guys who fly 2 or more times a month in first class.
kaybe 15y ago
A big argument seems to be the no-hassle idea. No security queues and the ability to book very spontaneously (apparently they make an app for booking) can be good reasons to go with them, I guess. (The heck, I read their whole faq despite being on the other side of the ocean without any need to fly because I find the idea so intriguing..)

jluan 15y ago

If I'm not mistaken, a decent chunk of expense for commercial airlines is in fees to have a gate and terminal area for their aircraft. Here, they will probably fly out of the general aviation section of airports, where they'll get charged a small ramp fee at most.

flashmedium 15y ago
true, guess an admirals club is out of the question.
- aaroneous 15y ago
  FBO's are more fun anyway ;)

botolo 15y ago

Well, I think the target customer is not the one who buys commercial flights but maybe the one who usually reserve private jets to fly to the Bay Area from LA. $1,000 for this kind of customer could be extremely interesting.

sliverstorm 15y ago
Yea, it's hard to imagine many private individuals would rack up $1,000 every month flying from Palo Alto to LA and back. I've seen $80 specials to fly Bay Area to LA, so you'd have to be making something like 5 round trips a month.
- latchkey 15y ago
  The difference being that for $80 you're flying with the masses, dealing with TSA, etc...
  - sliverstorm 15y ago
    Of course, I'm just contemplating whether or not they would get many customers who would fly so much as to lose the company money.
- kooshball 15y ago
  >I've seen $80 specials to fly Bay Area to LA, so you'd have to be making something like 5 round trips a month. The people willing to pay 1k/month for this are probably not in the group of people looking for $80 specials.
- saryant 15y ago
  Head over to Flyertalk.com. It's more common than you think. Those specials are also inflexible and require either advance planning or a lucky weekend special. The target market for something like this is frequent fliers who need complete flexibility.
- ajaimk 15y ago
  This is targeted towards not the $80 specials people but the guys who fly 2 or more times a month in first class.

kaybe 15y ago

A big argument seems to be the no-hassle idea. No security queues and the ability to book very spontaneously (apparently they make an app for booking) can be good reasons to go with them, I guess. (The heck, I read their whole faq despite being on the other side of the ocean without any need to fly because I find the idea so intriguing..)