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Start-up Social Flights Predicts Cooperation With Airlines
“See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to *hold* the reservation and that’s really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
Investors in Social Flights include our dedicated operators, our loyal customers, our gracious parent company, and our visionary seed investors. So we pose the following idea with data to back it up:
Social Flights can fly non-stop service that carries bumped passengers to their intended destination on a private jet for less than the financial cost and social burden of federal penalties and traveler disruption.
This article furnishes FAA data showing that during the month of July – September 2011, a total of 12,516 people were involuntarily denied boarding (bumped) despite the fact that they held reservations. This does not include passengers affected by cancelled, delayed or diverted flights.
This number falls precisely within the scale, distribution, and unique capabilities of Social Flights. From FAA Air Consumer Report
Social Flights is a revolutionary tool that can help reduce the volatility in cooperation not in competition with the airlines by providing fractional scale capacity that is deployable with great speed, flexibility, and precision.
The presence of a Social Flights terminal at a large airport can provide an alternative for airlines to honor the reservations that their travelers hold. Once a group 8, 20, 30, or 50 bumped passengers from all airlines converge to a single location, Social Flights can initiate a non-stop flight. Airlines can often anticipate overbooking with substantial advanced notice. Likewise, an aircraft that only fills less than, say 50% of it’s seats can disaggregated into several component destinations to be deployed by Social Flights.
The ability to absorb volatility in the Commercial Airline industry using private and public charter service is an important asset to commercial airlines, private carriers, and most importantly, the traveling public. Social Flights predicts that the Commercial Carriers will soon see the benefit of cooperating with private capacity using the social aggregation tools of Social Flights.