weinberg81

Virgin’s most recent new business, Los Angeles based Virgin Charter, launched this evening. The company was founded by CEO Scott Duffy with the hope of modernizing the booking systems for charter aircraft. Virgin’s Richard Branson got wind of the startup, gave the company three times the funding they were looking for and took a controlling interest. The company was renamed Virgin Charter. (copied from techcrunch)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/12...n-marketplace/

Tuesday, the company will unveil the "beta" version of Virgin Charter--an online marketplace that links buyers and sellers of flight time on private planes. The company thinks it can bring transparency and efficiency to a fragmented, opaque business filled with numerous brokers and operators and no centralized marketplace. (copies from forbes)

http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/...612virgin.html

What are your thoughts as to the success of this new venture? http://www.virgincharter.com/

Kagehitokiri

looking forward to final launch ^

until then, i just noticed this site (in comments on techcrunch) currently allows searching without registering (every other site ive seen requires it )

http://www.aircharterguide.com/

weinberg81

do you think they will drive prices down?

pseudoswede

Kayak.co.uk brought the below link up when I was shopping during the ex-ARN first-class fare misload fiasco.

http://www.privatejetspecialist.com/us/aareq.asp

You can search without registering.

$230k for ARN-DEN r/t n/s charter flight.