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Everyone is locked up for 18 months. This is very important to us for both core team and advisors too.

NetJets business model is very different. They offer a few services; the part ownership model, where you can either buy hours in chunks or part "own" a jet, which means they have a fleet of the same jets so people get the same type each time.
They also have a service to manage other people's jets, with the option of helping them get a return on them by leasing them out to others for trips as well.

So, a very different model whereby they own their own fleet and management of other people's jets is a big thing. This means they have fewer of their own fleet, due to the model being so different.

We work with a couple of brokers, who themselves don't own any jets, but they're the link to all the smaller owners of jets directly. I'll be publishing who they all are soon, it's not a secret, but need to get it on our site etc. they're essentially the link for us to many many owners around the world.

One thing they do very well is having these relationships with all of these people, but market growth and penetration for them is still quite old fashioned. That's why it works well for us, as we can bring them more exposure and business, that they benefit from, as do we. So it's a win win.

Hi Alan, with regards to size of market, this is over $30b industry, which has seen an increase in use by numbers (people taking flights), to number of hours flying, over the past 3 years of over 10% gain per year.

Not only does VolAir help tap into that market, but also aims to make it more accessible. We can do this by using technology to minimise wasted flights that are empty, and utilising the seats available. You can already fly from London to Geneva, occupying just one seat for 500 GBP, which isn't far off a business class commercial flight cost. With the fact you can redeem VOL directly against the flight costs means possibility to drastically reduce costs. Our main aim is to make this more accessible.
After that comes things you'd expect, such as hotels, car rentals etc. through our partners, too. Yes, aimed more high end, but equally to make this available to the businessmen/women, who currently can't utilise this market due to price points.

We spoke a lot to current / previous employees of JetSmarter and there is a lot of unrest there as their model isn't working in the way they wanted, and shareholders are now pushing back. They had time pulling in ARR subs, which dried up and they hadn't catered for different geographical markets.
For example, the middle east is a huge market for private jets, but JetSmarter's model failed there and they closed operations! It's a huge potential market for us and we have people ready to grow it.
If you look at JetSmarter, they are also a middle / app layer - They work with brokers just like we do to confirm/ fulfil their flights and have other companies that do the "VIP" service part. This is no different from everything we have in place now.

JetSmarter has 2 brokers, and we have the same number of planes as they have access to.

On top of that, JetSmarter have just been trialing "no fee month" where you can use jetsmarter without the upfront fees. So they know the model is broken... yet with VolAir we have completely flipped that model and give back to the user rewarding their loyalty! Why shouldn't they get something back too?

So we've done a lot of the ground work to make this work as a business. We have people ready to commit in nearly all our chosen locations to help us grow as a business in those places.

We've been working solidly on the technology side to ensure that we can offer the best services to our customers and our partners, maximising technology to leverage the empty legs of private jet flights and bringing them to our users, too.

Like I said, what you can't see in all of this is the work and research gone into understanding our competition in the market, where the real life gaps are and how we can use technology to give back to our users.

Any questions on it though, I'd be happy to answer!

You can check my linkedin... I'm from the UK based in Basel. So not sure where you're getting that from.

We have everything in place to be fully operational. Partners with over 12,500 planes and all our contracts in place. We're just ensuring we have our app ready before our main sale and you can see for yourself.

Nice to DYOR before jumping in