Originally Posted by
PbodyPhoto
I can only see the shared charter making any sense if people book something that coincides with a major event. I can see people dropping $2k for a seat on a non stop jet from say New York to the Kentucky Derby but I just can't see it working for random city pairs on random dates.
This. Most charter by the seat ventures have failed. This new offering will have very limited appeal to the charter initiator as generally those who can afford to pay $4,000/hour and up to charter a business jet are not very price sensitive. They certainly don't like the core service offering of JetSmarter which is to take the private out of private aviation.
For those price sensitive charter passengers who could afford 1/8 * $4,000+/hr for a seat, it's highly unlikely that a flight will exist at the desired date in the desired market (absent a few high-demand events and heavily traveled markets that are presumably already covered by shuttles)
Edited to add: O/T but I did get a chuckle out of JetSmarter offering a flight on a Hawker 1000. That's one rare bird!