Marmalade Skies
Company | |
Industry | Private Jet Charter Auctions |
Founded | 2013 |
Headquarters |
840 Post Road East Westport,CT 06880 |
Key people |
Chuck Taylor, Founder Brad Reisner, Co-Founder |
Products |
Private Jet Charters Empty Legs Flash Seat Sales |
Website | www.marmaladeskies.com |
Marmalade Skies is an online auction site that offers flyers a chance to bid on empty leg flights[1] and make flight requests for on-demand private jet travel. The company also sells seats on scheduled Part-135[2] qualified piston and Turboprop aircraft plus offers last minute deals on regional airlines.
The company was founded in 2013 by Chuck Taylor and Brad Reisner[3] who also is the co-founder of Charitybuzz.
History
Marmalade Skies was born from an observation that the on demand air charter industry is a surprisingly inefficient business model for both passengers and charter companies – up to 40% of the private jet flights jetting across the sky are empty.[4]
The company has created a community of travelers and charter operators using an auction-based mode and the market has become more transparent, more honest, and more efficient.
Marmalade Skies gives fliers a chance to bid on and buy luxury private jet travel and save[5] – while giving charter companies a chance to grow their businesses.
Services
- Empty Legs: flight auctions
- Private Jet Charters: flight auctions
- Flash Seats: last minute seat deals on board a piston, turbo prop or regional jet
Frequently Chartered Private Jets
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References
- ↑ Smith, Catherine. "Taking Advantage of One-Way Jet Charter Flights". Forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
That’s why Empty Leg flights can be such a great deal – aircraft operators are very motivated to negotiate a good price to sell the flight.
- ↑ Moore, Jim. "Charter operators connecting New York and Boston". aopa.org. AOPA. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
A Boston-area charter operator has teamed up with a New York-area charter operator to launch scheduled (Part 135) service in a Cirrus SR22.
- ↑ Holtzman, Coppy. "Charity Buzz Bord of Directors". charitybuzz.com. Charity Buzz. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
BRAD REISNER is a co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Charitybuzz. His vision enabled the suite of applications and global scalability across platforms. He has over 20 years of technology experience with a specialization in database technologies and application server logic.
- ↑ Higgins, Michelle. "Try a Private Jet, at Public Prices". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
'The dirty little secret of the industry is, about a third of our flights are empty,' said Alex Wilcox, chief executive of JetSuite, based in Southern California
- ↑ McCartney, Scott. "How to Hire a Private Jet to Beat Winter Weather Delays". online.wsj.com. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
Charter firms have gotten more aggressive about posting 'empty legs' available to travelers at deep discounts.