Jet Rental App

.often in six-hour time.

At least this is the expectation of Sergey Petrossov, the 26 year old JetSmarter CEO and creator of a new app that will help high flyers rent a jet and easily book a vehicle from the ever-present JetSmarter fleet. Petrossov had a little more cash after the sale of his first IT business in 2009 to devote himself to personal flight.

Once enjoying the aerial adventure, he found the whole aviation reservation procedure quite arcane and arcane. Calling a real estate agent, laborious papers, and the risks that the aircraft he thought he was reserving wasn't the one parking at the gates made it necessary.

PrivatFly has more aircraft available than JetSmarter (7,000, according to its website), but only operates in Europe. The BlackJet accepted a book-per-seat offer but trusted the "classic networking effect" to create memberships to fill its flight capacity and had to take a leap back at the end of 2013 due to funding problems.

First and foremost, the carpool has stayed on the streets and now and then comes to the rescue of the unfortunate marooned weekends of Hayptons by providing chopper trips to and from the luxurious beachside resort. You have also partnered with dedicated charters to provide privately operated services at major special occasions such as the Cannes Film Festival, but the services are always restricted in terms of time, destination and number of aircraft available.

JetSmarter functions as a concierge services that helps its technically skilled passengers make bookings and fulfill their flight needs, especially through a messenger ring function in the app (although 24/7 humanitarian telephone assistance is available). JetSmarter is framed by Peterov as " rather a technological enterprise, we are not trying to be an airline", but in fact the app seems to be sharing the roles of the "airline" with the aircraft owner.

JetSmarter is a tour operator who helps to link the flyers with their dreams and fulfil all passengers' wishes, even those who are really insane. According to Petrossov, these inquiries are to be anticipated if your services are used by prominent people, license fees and wealthy private people.

Petrusov maintains that the app is so simple to use that it allows these powerful characters to "take charge of their flight patterns" and make their own itineraries. As Uber recently introduced a split-fare facility that allows clients to merge to reduce the costs of a vehicle, JetSmarter is hoping to allow jet-setters to resell vacant spaces on their charter planes.

Petrossov says 30 per cent of aircraft chartered are empty, as it is often necessary for aircraft to "reposition" themselves at their customer's point of origin (a flight from New York to Miami may have chosen an aircraft parking in Dallas). Most charterers are willing to take up to 70 per cent off the price of a passenger on these routes, sometimes just the price of petrol.

However, this still includes to book the whole aircraft at a lower tariff. JetSmarter plans to introduce a full jet share by the end of 2014 that would allow a passenger to occupy a vacant space on a charters aircraft (a common usage, of course, known as jet sharing). Yes, the cost of the seats will be more than one on a business trip, but maybe not more.

Petrossov, for example, quotes the latest empty legs report, where he says that a repositioning plane from Miami to New York could cost only $4,000 for a 10-passenger jet. It is hoped that the annoying and sharp last-minute fares of the major carriers, even when it comes to bus reservations (the horrors!), will make it sensible to charge a little more for better services and a more relaxing travel environment.

In spite of the good headlines for a wide variety of flyers (really, given the options who wouldn't want to rent their own jet?), there is one area that may never improve: reserving a Christmas plane. "Everything will depend on our availabilities, but we are available with our planes almost every single working week of the year, maybe except Christmas and New Year," says Petrossov.

" Naturally, the "something" could be the "ridiculously cheap" commercial jet model 550, according to Petrossov - but hey, it's Christmas.