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Social Flights; The NextGen of Private Air Transport
Next Generation Air Traffic Management represents a major evolution in ground based air traffic control to satellite based air traffic management; it also represents an opportunity for private aviation to deliver far more value to the communities that they serve.
In order to accomplish this, Social Flights is developing a unifying business method that accurately and reliably matches supply and demand for private transportation assets across several thousand airports in the United States. NextGen, combined with the Internet and social media, gives the private aviation industry a set of tools that were unimaginable 20 or 30 years ago when the private aviation market last shifted.
How will private travel evolve?
NextGen will use aviation-specific applications for existing, widely-used technologies such as GPS, Weather Forecasting, data networking, and digital communication. Not surprisingly, these applications will lead to new procedures and airport infrastructure.
Some of these changes may be quite predictable
To get an idea as to how these new technologies will impact aviation, it may be a simple matter to compare how these EXACT same technologies have changed social cooperation in general. This prediction is valid because we all cooperate for our little piece of the sky.
Society has learned to cooperate in amazing ways as mobile devices, VOIP, GPS, Weather Reports, Traffic Reports, and non-corporate social organization become evermore commonplace. New business models constantly form around the technology. The result has been a profound shift in power and influence to those (for better or for worse) who can access and curate relevant information AND then share that information with people in their networks (and beyond).
Social Flights is taking the lead and calling on all private operators to join with us to build a common platform for private aircraft inventory and ground operations across the United States:
- Where are your jets stationed?
- What inventory do you have available?
- Where are your empty legs going?
- Are you willing to share facilities or “code-share” with other operators?
- Are you willing to cooperate with the major airlines?
- If entrepreneurs in your community had access to the whole system, would this help you?
- If corporations and event planners had access to the whole system, would this help you?
- Are local hospitality and support services sharing information with you?
The New Technology Advantage
Since the late 1800’s America has replaced every single telephone pole with a new one every 50 years or so. Today, every less developed country can simply build relatively few cellular towers and avoid that mess. For this reason, we can assume that airlines no longer have the advantage of vast hub infrastructure when together, we can just as easily sort people and planes with access to the right data shared across the right network.