Private aviation has accidentally operated like Uber for decades, letting pilots pick up extra passengers on existing routes. The speaker grew up in the industry and noticed first-class commercial travelers are shocked by how different private flights actually are from what they expected.
We are in an industry what I like to consider works at a snail pace. For such fast jets that fly around, everything works really slow when it comes to change and adaptation. Basically, you're kind of putting out opportunities for other firms, pilots, aircraft companies to pick up an extra passenger if it's along the route or if it's not too far out of the way. I did grow up in the industry seeing the way things were done. The model that they created, it really was, interestingly enough, was really the Uber of private aviation before it even happened. I pictured this being a product for folks that went from JetBlue and Delta First Class, and then this is their first time flying private, and I was unpleasantly surprised of what we found.
