Marmalade Skies

Marmalade Skies is an online auction site that offers flyers a chance to bid on empty leg flights[1] and make flight requests for on-demand private jet travel. The company also sells seats on scheduled Part-135[2] qualified piston and Turboprop aircraft plus offers last minute deals on regional airlines.

Marmalade Skies
Company
IndustryPrivate Jet Charter Auctions
Founded2013
Headquarters840 Post Road East
Westport,CT 06880
Key people
Chuck Taylor, Founder
Brad Reisner, Co-Founder
ProductsPrivate Jet Charters
Empty Legs
Flash Seat Sales
Websitewww.marmaladeskies.com

The company was founded in 2013 by Chuck Taylor and Brad Reisner[3] who also is the co-founder of Charitybuzz.

History

Marmalade Skies was born from an observation that the on demand air charter industry is a surprisingly inefficient business model for both passengers and charter companies – up to 40% of the private jet flights jetting across the sky are empty.[4]

The company has created a community of travelers and charter operators using an auction-based mode and the market has become more transparent, more honest, and more efficient.

Marmalade Skies gives fliers a chance to bid on and buy luxury private jet travel and save[5] – while giving charter companies a chance to grow their businesses.

Services
  • Empty Legs: flight auctions
  • Private Jet Charters: flight auctions
  • Flash Seats: last minute seat deals on board a piston, turbo prop or regional jet

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References
  1. Smith, Catherine. "Taking Advantage of One-Way Jet Charter Flights". Forbes.com. Forbes. Retrieved 5 February 2014. That’s why Empty Leg flights can be such a great deal – aircraft operators are very motivated to negotiate a good price to sell the flight.
  2. Moore, Jim. "Charter operators connecting New York and Boston". aopa.org. AOPA. Retrieved 5 February 2014. A Boston-area charter operator has teamed up with a New York-area charter operator to launch scheduled (Part 135) service in a Cirrus SR22.
  3. Holtzman, Coppy. "Charity Buzz Bord of Directors". charitybuzz.com. Charity Buzz. Retrieved 5 February 2014. BRAD REISNER is a co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Charitybuzz. His vision enabled the suite of applications and global scalability across platforms. He has over 20 years of technology experience with a specialization in database technologies and application server logic.
  4. Higgins, Michelle. "Try a Private Jet, at Public Prices". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 5 February 2014. 'The dirty little secret of the industry is, about a third of our flights are empty,' said Alex Wilcox, chief executive of JetSuite, based in Southern California
  5. McCartney, Scott. "How to Hire a Private Jet to Beat Winter Weather Delays". online.wsj.com. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 February 2014. Charter firms have gotten more aggressive about posting 'empty legs' available to travelers at deep discounts.
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