Does anyone have any experience with Jump On Flyaways? Read an article in the Georgia Straight on it and the concept sounds interesting. They make use of charter planes that are normally used to transport oil workers in Alberta that typically sit dormant on weekends and see if they can get enough people to charter it for a leisure flight. The flight only goes ahead if enough people commit to it by a certain date. All of the flights so far seem to have been to/from Calgary but it sounds like they are trying to figure out how to expand the cities they hit based on interest.

The appeal is supposed to be cheap flights but on first glance, it's not looking really cheap. They had charters for YYC to LAS at $479 and that kind of how much you can get a flight from YVR to LAS for on WS on sale I think. And with low oil prices starting to hit the Alberta oil fields, who knows what the availability of planes will be now (eg. who knows if there will be more planes sitting around or less because they'll be reallocated for some other purpose).