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Social Flights Solving for X
This morning we received a great comment from a reader named Peter. He posts a valid question and I had to think about it for a few minutes before I could bring up a response. Unfortunately, as with most questions, there is a simple answer and a complicated one.
Peter wrote:
I’ll be curious to see if eventually non-stop flights between these four cities will be established eliminating the need to connect through Branson. While this promises to be a great alternative to the airlines the current configuration is still a hub and spokes model. Here’s hoping we’ll see non-stop flights between these cities in the future.
Peter is referring to newly introduced air service between Nashville, Austin, Milwaukee, flying through Branson MO. Admittedly, this is a pretty strange arrangement, especially since Branson only has 20,000 people whereas the other three metro areas have over 500,000 people each.
Who in their right mind would put a hub in the smaller city?
Branson is the Live Entertainment Capital of the Midwest. The community of Branson came together to support these flights with a high level of civic involvement and passenger engagement with a high quality “service” model. Branson is safe, clean, and they even own the airport. The people of Branson are very proud of what they have built and want to share it with the world. They dare to be different.
Social Flights partnership with Branson demonstrates that air service can empower a community, not cowering to the whips and whims from the corporate boardroom of a publicly traded airline.
- Solving for X or solving for Eggs?
A hub airport is like a big egg sorter for people and planes (where people are the eggs and the planes are the cartons).
A big part of our business model is to integrate with what is happening on the ground. Imagine if Amazing places like Vail Colorado, or Chelan WA, or the Grand Canyon were easily accessible. Imagine your next industry conference at a resort in the Ozarks instead of downtown Newark.
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Now, here’s the complicated answer
If nobody is going to Branson, the plane can just fly the hypotenuse. Try that with hub and spoke
102 Things To Do In Nashville Tennessee
Social Flights is introducing air service between Nashville Tennessee, Austin Texas, Milwaukee Wisconsin and Branson Missouri beginning in May 2012. The opportunities for travelers to access business opportunities, recreational experiences, family connections, and entertainment value has never been better.
Say Goodbye to the Hassle
The social experience of travel has finally been liberated from the boardrooms of the airlines and no longer subject to the fragile and abusive hub and spoke system. No more long lines, luggage searches or irradiation machines. Social Flights takes you where you want to go.
Visit all the Capitals
Nashville is the music capital of the world – without rival. For publishing, recording, and production Nashville has few peers. Nashville is located in the population center of the United States and perfectly accessible to many locations of magnificent beauty, culture, and business opportunities.
Your way, not the highway
There are many great things to do in Nashville and dozens of websites that will help you find the getaway of your dreams. Social Flights now makes these opportunities to a wider market of people than ever before. Fly to Nashville today with Social Flights – lose the hassle. (list compiled by: 365Nashville.com)
7. The Melrose Spring Beer Tasting
9. Glass Night at Flying Saucer
10. Train for the Country Music Marathon or 1/2 Marathon
11. Mulligan’s Pub and Restaurant
12. Frist Center For the Visual Arts
13. Radnor Lake
14. Art By the Glass
16. NashVegas Casino Night at Cannery Ballroom
17. Nuvo Burrito
18. Bluebird Café
19. Warner Parks
21. “8 off 8th” at Mercy Lounge
22. Two for Tuesdays
23. Climb Nashville
24. Nashville Lawn & Garden Show
25. Nashville Haunted Pub Crawl
27. Las Paletas
29. The Billy Block Show from 12th and Porter
30. The Pie Wagon
32. Belmont Mansion
35. Jacks BBQ
36. Volunteer at 2nd Harvest Food Bank
38. Disc Golf at Seven Oaks Park
40. Zumi Sushi
41. Musica Sculpture
42. Bongo Java Roasting Company
43. The Station Inn
45. Crow’s Nest
49. Hatch Show Print
50. Nashville Predators
51. Whiskey Kitchen
52. Love Circle
53. Dozen – A Nashville Sweet Shop
54. Laser Quest
55. Dragon Park
57. Eco-Adventure Canopy Zip Tour
58. Loveless Café
59. Commodore Grille
61. Nashville Zoo
62. Brunch at the Copper Kettle
63. Sweet CeCe’s
64. All Fired Up
65. Downtown Nashville Home Tour
65. Rajin’ Cajun Crawfish Boil
66. Taco Mamacita
67. Nashville Sounds
71. Donut Den
72. Dove Awards
74. South Street
75. Country Music Hall of Fame
79. Exit/In
80. Allium
83. Southern Bred
84. Franklin Rodeo
87. Tuesdays at the French Quarters
88. Music City Roots
89. Burger Up
90. We ART Nashville
91. Nashville Shores
92. Fido
95. Brown Bag Lunch Concert Series
96. Tennessee Renaissance Festival
99. Grassmere Bicentennial Picnic Celebration
100. Memorial Day Blues Festival
101. Movies in the Park
Social Flights Beats Airlines; Case Study
Few people realize the extraordinary opportunity that exists for some communities to literally fly under the radar of the commercial airlines. Far too often, people are trained to believe that the airlines are the only game in town and if they quote a price, flight time, and wait time, then that must be the best deal out there. Nothing gives us more pleasure than to demonstrate quite the opposite.
Branson and Nashville
There are no nonstop flights between Nashville and Branson Missouri. Frontier charges $507.00 and the flight – with connections – takes 8 hours. Social Flights can fulfill this route for around 260 dollars for a non-stop flight that lasts only one hour – this is an astonishing 50% cheaper and 80% faster that flying commercial.
Branson and Milwaukee
There are no nonstop flights between these cities. Commercial carriers can provide access but it cost you $335.00 to travel 6 hours. Social Flights provides non-stop service for $290 dollars in only 2 hours.
Branson and Austin
There are no non-stop flights between Branson and Austin. However, Frontier will charge you $523 dollars to leave you in Denver and take an amazing 23 hours! Clearly, it would be faster to drive. Social Flights provides this flight for $290.00 non-stop and will have you there is 2 hours.
The Functionally Stranded
Thousands of communities across the United States are functionally stranded when they need to pay more in real cost than twice the airfare to reach their destination. This creates a substantial friction to a local economy since both outbound and inbound passengers suffer the friction loss.
Keeping it Real
OK, so who cares about places like Branson MO, Tri-Cities TN, Somerset KY, Arlington WA, and Danbury CT? The answer is that millions of people are functionally and economically stranded without global air transportation options – they care deeply.
It does not take long to realize that there are thousands upon thousands of routes and millions of people in our great country where Social Flights can thoroughly and without question outperform the major airlines in the simple task of connecting real people to the real places that they really want to go.
Celebrate Private Air Service to The Kentucky Derby
The most exciting two minutes in sports
Let Social Flights be your source of air transportation service for The Derby Festival and The Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby (always the first Saturday in May) is more than just a two-minute horse race. It is two-plus weeks of parties, entertainment and good times.
From Kentucky Tourism:
The kickoff of the celebration starts April 21, 2012 with “Thunder Over Louisville”, which is one of the largest air show and fireworks displays in the States. More than half-a-million spectators line the banks of the Ohio River to witness the fireworks and music that make it a magical night.
The festival continues with events you don’t want to miss: the Great BalloonFest; the Chuck Wagon to stop the hunger; the marathon and mini-marathon; Great Bed Race; the Great Steamboat Race; and, of course, the Pegasus Parade.
Arguably the most famous horse race in the world is right around the corner and Social Flights is busy filling seats on private aircraft from several locations in the US. When you share a private jet into this event, you enjoy a first class experience with people with whom you can share a lifelong memory.
From Wikipedia
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky,United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile (2 km) at Churchill Downs. The race is known in theUnited States as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” or “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports”. It is the first leg of the US Triple Crown and is followed by the Preakness Stakes, then the Belmont Stakes.
Visit social flights to get an instant quote under “Get a Quote” option, then we’ll notify you as others join your itinerary. The best time to start is now. Or, keep an eye out for Social Flight Kentucky Deby Packages. Our NASCAR Packages have been selling out very quickly so we expect the Derby to sell fast too.
Let us know if you would like to have a Social Flight out of your city!! Invite your family, friends, and colleagues for an exceptional experience at an most exceptional event.
Social Flights NASCAR Package Nashville to Bristol Motor Speedway
Social Flights Offers a flight from Nashville to Bristol, TN for the Food City 500 NASCAR Race on March 18, 2012. Social Flights announces this public charter flights operated by Corporate Flight Management, Inc. from Nashville.
The Food City 500 is a 500 lap race NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on the 0.533 miles (0.858 km) track at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. This is one of two NASCAR races held at Bristol, the other being the Irwin Tools Night Race, and is considered one of NASCAR‘s best races.
This non-stop flight will leave Smyrna, TN at 8:40 A.M. and arrive in Bristol at 11:00 A.M. The return flight will leave Bristol, TN at 6:00 P.M. and will arrive back in Nashville around 6:20 P.M. Social Flights is also including race tickets and ground transportation for the participants.
Clear Channel will be giving away four seats with tickets to the race and ground transportation to those registered for the prize drawing provided by Clear Channel. Interested parties can register for the free seats either at www.wsix.com or at www.1059therock.com. Social Flights has 15 seats available for the flight. One round-trip seat, ground transportation and a race ticket sells for $649.20 (all taxes and fees included) and can be purchased at www.socialflights.com/scheduled/001-002.
Social Flights will be offering many unique and convenient air service to various events across the US which no Commercial Airline could possibly serve. This makes Social Flights is truly a unique and important innovation in travel. Please feel free to contact us with an event on your calendar.
Social Flights Contact
Matt Slosky, Media Relations
Ph: 615-534-4590
matt.slosky@socialflights.com
About Social Flights:
Social Flights is the fastest growing privation aviation network online today. Social Flights is introducing a new paradigm to private aviation that enables the masses to access and buy seats on private aircraft at competitive prices. The Social Flights technology matches buyer intents to supplier availability and creates a new marketplace for air travelers. In just one year, the Social Flights network has grown to 13,866 social fliers and 98 private aircraft operators, encompassing over 600 aircraft available for charter opportunities to communities and individuals. www.socialflights.com.
About Corporate Flight Management:
CFM is one of the largest Part 135 private aviation companies in the USA operating 30+ aircraft in Smyrna, TN, Atlanta, GA and Danbury CT. CFM is one of the highest rated private aviation companies with an ARGUS Platinum rating for outstanding quality standards in safety and operational excellence. CFM sells, services, trains, operates and provides a variety of air services and has done so successfully for the last 30 years. Employing close to 200 people and servicing over 250 flights per month makes CFM an outstanding aviation company with a long list of dedicated customers and loyal employees. www.flycfm.com
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.
Free Listing For Event Managers
Social Flights is proud to announce one of the most important innovations in travel since the OTA. Our new events page allows communities to promote their events and their special attributes for free to people across the country who may want to share a charter aircraft to get there. Our “kickstarter” feature books the trip when the seats are filled – at which point we will deliver them comfortably to your doorstep.
We call this Social Flying.
Normally, the airline decides when, where, and how you will reach your destination. With Social Flights, communities of people tell the airline where, when, and how they want to reach your destination. Of course, many people want to attend your event or experience the natural beauty, culture, or history of your community - the problem is that they simply cannot get there. That’s the problem that Social Flights solves best.
Social Flights opens up a new market for air travel
For example:
- Many events require a 3 day minimum commitment; 2 days to travel commercial and 1+ days for the event.
- Weekend travel is almost impossible with the airline system. End of story.
- Spontaneity: airline seats often book solid weeks in advance or priced through the roof within the week of travel.
- Access: many of the greatest events, most amazing sites, and unforgettable experiences are NOT near a hub airport
The following screen shot is an example of how communities are using Social Flights Event service. Go ahead and try it, contact us here or call 615 534-4590 to participate in the beta rollout of this new and exciting feature
