All-You-Can-Fly Airline Plies the California Coast

It&#x27;s funny that a huge part of the reason that a business like this exists is the TSA. If flying commercial airlines didn&#x27;t require an hour and a half of waiting in line for security and a fair dose of humiliation, I think people would be much more willing to fly from SFO to LAX.<p>Instead, we&#x27;re running inefficient propeller planes for short distances and really high prices, and people are treating it like it&#x27;s some amazing new innovation.

I&#x27;ve never quite mentally reconciled the idea that people whose industry is built on telecommunication should have to spend hours and days traveling to talk about it.

Fascinating! Although, as a cautionary data point, selling &quot;all you can fly&quot; didn&#x27;t work too well for American Airlines:<p><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;articles.latimes.com&#x2F;2012&#x2F;may&#x2F;05&#x2F;business&#x2F;la-fi-0506-...</a>

It&#x27;s interesting that he ran the numbers and picked single engine aircraft for safety (but with two pilots); this seems correct from what I&#x27;ve seen of small aircraft stats. If you look at successful dispatch rate, it&#x27;s even more clear that single engine is the way to go.<p>I&#x27;d do something like this if they covered Seattle, SF, Reno, Portland, and central-WA (datacenters) and central-OR (datacenters). Throw in SB&#x2F;LA&#x2F;SD&#x2F;LV for extra fun, but the northern areas are what I care about much much more.

Very cool. Virgin started with one only plane. SA&#x27;s present niche is quite different. The bottom line is that it&#x27;s doable considering others still exist.<p>Tip: Virgin LHR counter is well run and I look forward to stopping by for that reason. It&#x27;s not about promoting a particular brand as a good way of doing life... leave the world a better place.

I&#x27;m a PC-12 pilot in the Northeast and have been watching this company since it was little more than an idea and a Twitter account (original name Plane Red). Their marketing and execution is so much better than other small airlines. I&#x27;d love to see a service like this come to the NYC area. So many people spend far more than this per month on tickets to go to Martha&#x27;s Vineyard, Nantucket, the Hamptons and coastal Maine.

If they could find a way to drop the monthly cost of this to around $500, this could potentially make working in the Bay Area more viable for a lot of people.<p>If you could shave $500 off your monthly rent or mortgage by living in a coastal CA city and just flying in to work in Silicon Valley or SF, I think a lot more people would be willing to sign up. The service would essentially pay for itself.

If they can make this work in Tahoe that would be great. A few commercial airlines have tried service to South Lake Tahoe, but the weather has made service too unpredictable. It might make sense to use Reno or Minden NV airports to access Tahoe.

It&#x27;s like web hosting. You have to be careful not to overload the servers, or in this case planes, so that paying the monthly is not worth it.

I know a lot of consultants who fly every weekend. If this had better city coverage it would actually be cost effective.

great place for the dhs to blow shit up and give the tsa reason to fuck around. i hear they&#x27;re policing highways already. about time for these assholes to expand to europe. it&#x27;s more likely i get struck by lightning but i&#x27;m so afraid of terrorists! come grope me!