All you can fly airline

[cmill]

LOS ANGELES -- Can an all-you-can-fly membership airline get off the ground?
A team of brothers plans to launch an airline to serve executives and others who are willing to pay a monthly membership fee for unlimited travel up and down the California coast.
The concept is not new and has been fairly successful, primarily with larger, commercial airlines.
Santa Monica-based Surf Air plans to begin accepting members Thursday to fly between Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterey and Palo Alto starting in May.
The airline would charge members a monthly fee, starting at $790, for unlimited flights between the four destinations on small eight-passenger aircraft.
The flights will take off on a schedule to be established later, based on the demand of members.
Surf Air is founded by Wade Eyerly, a former campaign aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The brothers attempted to launch a similar operation on the East Coast last year under the name PlaneRed but decided instead to relocate it to the West Coast after working with MuckerLab, a technology incubator in Los Angeles, according to a Surf Air spokeswoman.
"Surf Air's subscription membership pricing will fundamentally change the way people travel and revolutionize the business model for the airline industry," the company said in a statement.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_20344368/all-you-can-fly-airline-hopes-take-off

http://www.surfair.com/

 

[z987k]

Money says those pc-12's turn into C208's after a bit.

 

[ChasenSFO]

Palo Alto? That kind of surprised me, seeing as there are already so many local part 91 charters out here with PC-12s and Kingairs out here that I think the cooperate market between SQL and PAO seems flooded already. I doubt there will be much more savings than the rates for buying blocks of time that most corporations already do with fractionals.

 

[scooter2525]

do they have first class for dasleben

 

[rausda27]

"Who flies the aircraft?
We’re proud of our team of the finest trained pilots. They have graduated from the finest aviation universities and have flown thousands of passengers on commercial, military, charter, and private aviation. We hand-select each of our pilots based on their experience, desire to be the absolute best in his/her field, an unwavering commitment to safety, and a passion for genuinely personal service."

 

[B200 Hawk]

"Who flies the aircraft?
We’re proud of our team of the finest trained pilots. They have graduated from the finest aviation universities and have flown thousands of passengers on commercial, military, charter, and private aviation. We hand-select each of our pilots based on their experience, desire to be the absolute best in his/her field, an unwavering commitment to safety, and a passion for genuinely personal service."

 

[z987k]

"Who flies the aircraft?
We’re proud of our team of the finest trained pilots. They have graduated from the finest aviation universities and have flown thousands of passengers on commercial, military, charter, and private aviation. We hand-select each of our pilots based on their experience, desire to be the absolute best in his/her field, an unwavering commitment to safety, and a passion for genuinely personal service."

Must be the best paid PC-12 drivers out there.