In the world of commercial aviation, a dogged drive for optimisation has seen operators weather frequent economic and geopolitical shocks.  Notable winners in this market over the past 8 years have been the low cost carriers.  In Europe, cost advantage has enabled the likes of EasyJet to take considerable market share from the legacy carriers.  Of note, it has grown its market share by 8% in France, Italy and Switzerland and by 6% in the UK.  This compares to an average drop of 5.5% at Europe’s legacy airlines, since 2005.

Whilst innovation has been rife in the commercial world, it has been conspicuously absent in the business aviation market.  This is largely due to the operating margins previously enjoyed in business aviation but as economic challenges persist, the industry will undoubtedly face pricing pressures, which threaten profitability.  In order to protect margins, at a time when the traditional top-line growth drivers are stagnating (in Europe and the US at least), business jet operators will have to look to make efficiency savings.

One area of focus in this regard is that of “empty legs” – those flights made by an operator en-route to pick up passengers or the repositioning of a jet, empty, after a drop off.  Obviously, if jet operators could sell seats on those empty flights, it would significantly improve their operating efficiency.

FlightPooling.com is a platform through which operators can sell seats on empty legs, whilst at the same time, offering these seats at a price point compelling to a completely new audience.

Many operators are already willing to sell seats on empty legs, which account for a staggering 40% of flights daily in the US/UK, but customer utility is significantly enhanced when empty legs from a vast number of jet operators are aggregated in one resource.  The traveller is therefore offered maximum choice and flexibility.  In addition, at FlightPooling.com users can opt to share a business jet with likeminded individuals and further reduce the price that is payable by each traveller.

We think that being able to travel from London to Paris onboard a Challenger 300, for just £169/seat is attractive to a much larger audience than is currently targeted by executive jet brokers.  This is just one example of the incredible deals that we hope our customers will benefit from, as we utilise previously empty legs on private jets.

FlightPooling.com offers a win-win value proposition to both traveler and operator.  We are passionate about opening up the private jet market to a new customer base and at the same time delivering efficiency savings to our partner operators.

FlightPooling.com is a game changer – You don’t have to be a RockStar to travel like one!

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