From the Flytenow TOS: "Flytenow receives an administrative fee of $30 (the “Bulletin Board Fee”) per Enthusiast for each flight." Interjecting a third party

From the Flytenow TOS: "Flytenow receives an administrative fee of $30 (the “Bulletin Board Fee”) per Enthusiast for each flight." Interjecting a third party into the agreement is the point at which it starts being a business and not a gentleman's agreement or whatever it should have been. A bulletin board in an FOB doesn't count because the bulletin board, nor the provider of the board, doesn't make any money off someone putting up a 3x5 card or piece of paper. The bulletin board doesn't actually give a damn about whether anyone accepts the offer or the request, whether money changes hands or not, etc. I could probably put up an electronic bulletin board for pilots and enthusiasts as long as I had no interest in the offers of, or requests for, flights. I could possibly even charge a yearly or monthly fee for it, as long as it was for access, not about the flights. (I'm guessing on that last bit - the FAA would probably give me squinty looks for a while until they were satisfied I wasn't charging for flights). But Flytenow had to go putting a per-ride fee on things and that's the moment it because a business transaction. Their TOS is here: https://flytenow.com/terms https://flytenow.com/terms --- Really and honestly, without ever having been involved, I'm thinking the existing system of informal agreements and bulletin boards, etc. is way preferable to dealing with Flytenow. They're adding a middleman where no middleman was really needed, except maybe a neighbor who knows a guy who has a plane.