Non-Scheduled Flights with Airline-Style
Fares--Air Taxi Operators who provide on-demand air carrier services
under FAR Part 135 can add a new market of great potential with
AIRFLITE®.
Selling such services only as
Charter is like flying a twin on one engine. Let's start that other
engine--let's sell on-demand flights also as AIRFLITE®--so that customers can make reservations and buy tickets
as easily as they do on scheduled airlines, by the seat-mile and
one-way.
AIRFLITE® advertisements of such
on-demand airline-style service will generate customer calls to
1-800-AIRFLITE, and customers can be grouped direction-wise and time-wise
into profitable pay-loads for participating Operators. AIRFLITE® service can solve cost and convenience problems for
travelers through better utilization of the existing capabilities of
Participating Operators.
On-Demand Service is the Answer!
The
Air Taxi industry already solves transportation problems for people who
can afford Charter. Convenient point-to-point service is safe and fast,
and new technological developments make it more so. Toll free telephone
service makes Air Taxi easier to use, and airline-style fares can make Air
Taxi even easier for the customer to buy. The cost headwinds of
change--safety mandates and those nice electronic navigation
improvements--can become tailwinds to profit when more fully utilized. And
the Air Taxi industry can tap a new mass market with the AIRFLITE® system to bring the entire national picture into
focus.
On-demand aircraft and pilots and well honed management
skills are in place already. Money has been invested hand over fist to get
the industry where it is today. An even greater service can be provided
now with AIRFLITE® service, and greater profits can
be produced in the process.
Several hundred participating Air Taxi
Operators, working together as a group, can provide this new level of air
transportation with fantastic flexibility. Let's create the proverbial
"anywhere anytime" non-scheduled carrier---let's awaken this Air Taxi
sleeping giant!
More Profit with Airline-Style
Fares!
With AIRFLITE® fares one-and-a-half
times those of major airlines, charter sized revenue or more is possible
with acceptable load factors. Fares will vary in the six Jeppesen regions
and will adjust quarterly to keep Operator income abreast of the economy.
Airline type rates provide more cents per mile on shorter flights.
As with airlines, passengers going one way can request transport
as easily as passengers going in the opposite direction. So, when we tell
the Participating Operator the total net revenue and the transport needs
of the Outboung and Inbound passengers, the Operator may accept the
mission or decline without cost.
Standard fares are easier for the
public to understand and accept. Customer negotiations will be easier with
set fares and without rate cutting--fares will be quoted to the Customer
based on the miles each travels, without regard to the type of aircraft or
number of pilots. When strangers are grouped together with seat-mile
fares, it can be profitable to carry some people going one way and others
coming back., just as do the scheduled airlines.
The key to growth
opportunity for on-demand Air Taxi is the one-way fare on a seat-mile
basis. AIRFLITE® is a whole new ball game; easy to
enter and easy to play.
Just Envision AIRFLITE®
Service in Operation!
Easily available Air Taxi and one-way
lower cost fares will yield more flying hours, which will result in less
cost per flying hour. More hours and more profit on each, and revenue will
snow-ball when the general public finds that flying is fun again.
Increased use of the system only makes it function better all
along!
Other advantages occur when Air Taxi Operators participate
together in this network. Teamwork helps smooth out those pesky feast and
famine situations. Peak demands on occasion need not result in canceled
trips as participating Operators can help each other easily. Cooperation
and coordination will pay better than cutthroat competition. Participating
Operators will be concerned more about how to handle all this new business
than how to divide it. Envision all the incredible opportunities to
exploit the advantages of AIRFLITE®
service!
Participating Operators can arrange for passengers out of
any airport. Deadheading from Charter flights can be minimized. Layovers
become unnecessary with AIRFLITE® as other one-way
passengers can be provided for the return trip, and passengers can be
provided for other flights while on a lengthy Charter layover. Airline
passengers arriving from thousands of miles away can arrange for
AIRFLITE® service on to remote locations, and
Participating Operators can call in for passengers from anywhere to
anywhere.
Such a nationwide network can create increased public
recognition of the vital role of Air Taxi in air transportation. And
broader public support can open other doors, helping to overcome political
and economic obstacles of the General Aviation industry.
AIRFLITE® Service is a
Network.
AIRFLITE® will have a central
reservation system with toll free telephone service, nationwide. The
Customer can call day or night for an immediate answer concerning fare
cost of any Air Taxi request. AIRFLITE® groupings of
such requests can form a profitable payload, which a Participating
Operator can carry. AIRFLITE® arrangements will then
be confirmed back to the customer by our central
clearinghouse.
But--more than that--AIRFLITE®
advertising can beat the bushes for business from jet stops to boondocks.
AIRFLITE® service will be promoted out of "finder's
fee" revenue so that travelers will call--the national media advertising
will cost the Operator nothing.
With the AIRFLITE® network, toll free phones and other communication systems
will serve Participating Operators as they have served the airlines,
motels, and car rental firms. The newness and universal appeal of this
network should cause considerable news coverage, and word-of-mouth
advertising should cause traffic to mushroom. Local organizations may
sponsor AIRFLITE® for improved air transportation at
their smaller airports. AIRFLITE® can fill the market
gap between the scheduled airlines and Charter, while feeding customers to
each. The extent to which each Participating Operator shares in the
network will be as large or as little as each cares to make it.
AIRFLITE® advertising will sell on-demand Air Taxi
services as a nationwide network of air transport.
Participating Operators will Control all Flight
Activities.
Each Participating Operator will maintain complete
control of their aircraft and flight crews at all times. Each Operator
will have the choice of agreeing to make any flight, or declining without
any obligation. Their revenue requirements will be met to their
satisfaction before they start an engine.
Each Operator will choose
the Air Taxi aircraft and pilot (or pilots) that make flights, what
flights to perform, and will collect fares from the passengers prior to
boarding. Participating Operators will use AIRFLITE®
referrals to the extent each determines to be profitable for them.
The Starting of AIRFLITE®
Operations.
AIRFLITE® operations will
start as soon as 300 Air Taxi Operators sign on. At that time, and only
then, will the one time prepayment-on-account be made from each
Participating Operator. This is to ensure the first full year of
operation, but it also helps to select those Operators who are seriously
interested in making this venture succeed.
Any FAR Part 135
aircraft may be used. Customers with specific requirements for the number
of pilots or engines can be offered Charter service by the Participating
Operators.
After AIRFLITE® operations
begin, the initial cost for others to sign on will increase considerably.
However, efforts will be continued toward full coverage in all states, as
adequate coverage will be essential to good public service. But the total
number of participants may become limited in some areas. For example,
right from the beginning of the sign-on process, AIRFLITE® service agreements will be limited to one Air Taxi
Operator at any airport.
How to Sign On as a Participating Part
135 Operator.
An Air Taxi Operator can request an AIRFLITE® Service Agreement, sign it, and return it with the
$100 sign-on fee. Also, each Participating Operator will simultaneously
sign and return an AIRFLITE® Escrow Fund Agreement.
When at least 300 Operators have joined in this venture, as verified by a
nationally recognized, independent accounting firm, each Operator
will deposit $1,000 in the escrow account. When at least 300 Operators
have made their deposit, the escrow funds will become prepayments on each
Operator's account. If the escrow fund does not accumulate $300,000 in 180
days, each Operator's deposit in the fund will be returned by the Escrow
Agent.
The $1000 prepayment will be credited to the account of the
Participating Operator, at the start of AIRFLITE®
operations. Then, as AIRFLITE® "finder's fees" are
charged to the Operator's account, the credit balance will decrease. When
the $1000 credit is used up--when the Operator has received $20,000 of
revenue from AIRFLITE® fares--service charges for
further finder's fees will be billed monthly.
The AIRFLITE® finder's fees will be five percent of the fare. This
service charge includes everything--'round the clock clearinghouse service
with toll free phones as well as national media advertising of the
AIRFLITE® service. There will be no periodic dues,
no minimum charges, no franchise fees--nothing else. And the fee is
charged only on AIRFLITE® requests the Operator
accepts.
Now is the Time to Sign On.
Now is the
time to get in on the ground floor of this fantastic new opportunity.
Waiting until after AIRFLITE® operations start will
up the sign-on-ante from $100 to $3000. Waiting to sign on may deal some
potential Operators out, as only one can sign on at each
airport.
The public needs this kind of air transportation that an
Air Taxi system can provide. The AIRFLITE® network
can make it happen by selling on-demand flights with more affordable
pricing, and by creating new convenience for travelers. Let's ride the
crest of this popularity!
Agreements are presently being signed
with Air Taxi Operators who choose to participate in this new system of
air transportation--selling on-demand Part 135 with airline style fares by
the seat mile. We will advertise this new service nationally, and will
operate the central reservation system 24 hours every day to group
Customers into Charter size payloads. Start-up requires 300 participating
Air Taxi Operators. Let's start NOW!