Air Taxi and Air Charter Blog - Let’s get started
Hello,
I’m Roger Burton, CEO and founder of Taxijet.com. For three years I have been working on building an online portal to help passengers find air taxi and air charter flights. My focus has been on making contacts in the aviation community and helping to promote the idea of an interdependent network of air taxi operators. I have written a few blog entries in the past with an emphasis on helping other pilots take the steps necessary to start air taxi businesses of their own with the hopes that they will utilize our service once they are up and flying. During this time I have put a great deal of resources and effort into creating our online passenger coordination service. This service is an integral part of my vision of facilitating the air taxi revolution.
Now that we have built the working online service I am shifting my attention to bringing you, the traveling public, to our website. I’ll be writing in this blog on a regular basis to inform you of new developments in the air taxi industry as well as explain how our service can aid you in finding the Right Aircraft in the Right Place at the Right Time for your travel needs. I’ll write about aviation related issues and hopefully help you see the benefits and limitations of flying private air taxis.
With over 20,000 private jet and turboprop aircraft in the United States there is a great need for an easy way to connect passengers with those aircraft. The concept behind our online service is simple. If you are looking for a private jet or other type aircraft you can enter a Travel Request on our home page in less than 5 minutes. We have tools to help you find the right airport and get a sense of what the prices might be as you fill out the online form. Once you have submitted the form the system can instantly send it to many FAA certified aircraft operators simultaneously. We use an internal filtering system that sends your request to the aircraft operators who are likely to have an aircraft available. Once these operators receive the request they can submit a bid through our service. The automated system can instantly forward these bids to your email address. Here is what makes us different from other demand aggregators. We present all the options to you so you can make your choice based on cost as well as a number of other factors.
The operator bids we receive are sent to your email address along with the operator’s contact information and pricing. You can contact the operator directly to finalize your plans and book flights or ask Taxijet to assist you in the process. We are not a broker. We don’t accept payments from the Requester. The Requester will pay the Operator directly. This is in keeping with the intent of the FAA’s recent guidance on operational control. The flight transactions are between you, the Requester, and the aircraft operator. After a flight has been conducted Taxijet bills the operator a finder’s fee. This fee is 5% of the total charter price (less taxes) for cooperating operators. This is the industry standard discount that operators offer to charter brokers and demand aggregators like Taxijet.com for their services. What this means to the Requester is that you would pay the same price to the operator if you call them directly as you would if you find them through Taxijet.com. What you save by using our service is time. If you normally use a broker to find your aircraft we’ll also save you money by eliminating the middle man markup.
You can submit a Travel Request on Taxijet.com and we will advertise that request to many operators with aircraft that might work for the trip. We don’t just send the request to operators based at the origin airport but to other likely regions as well. If you try to contact operators by phone in person you would spend 10-15 minutes on the phone for each operator you call and you would be getting the same price quotes you get by using Taxijet.com. Since we expose your Travel Request to many operators the chance that we can find an efficient trip is greater. Since we have many contacts in the industry we can send your request straight to the people who make the scheduling decisions.
I hope you enjoy the commentary I include in my coming blog entries. Blog one out.
Tags: Air Charter, Air Taxi, aircraft, business jets, on demand air travel, private jet