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The JetSmarter is a luxurious privately owned and operated aircraft charter business that provides empty seat through its JetSmarter application to those who need a fast aircraft for their next destinations. JetSmarter members can visit the JetSmarter application and immediately find a local plane to use. Sergey Petrossov, CEO and founder, met with us to find out more about the business and its vision for the near-term.

With your own words: What is JetSmarter about? Over the past year, TSA safety has been causing many issues and delay for travellers in the U.S. With JetSmarter, our members can get there 15 min before their flights and unwind and enjoy themselves in their travelling experiences, whether it' commercial or personal. JetSmarter also aims to make travelling on personal jets available to the general public and more than just the 1 per cent fortunate.

What is the history behind the launch of JetSmarter? I began to fly privately in 2009 and quickly realized that the privately-owned aircraft business was very old-fashioned. The quite processes of phoning, holding and talking to many different persons to charter a plane were obsolete and unpleasant.

During 2012, I talked to the airlines with which I had built relations and how big the effects of a charter application would be on the sector. By August 2012, I made the vision come true and built the JetSmarter betas that I could share with an elite group of business professionals and regulars.

JetSmarter was introduced worldwide in March 2013. What is the price structure and how is JetSmarter remunerated? As a result, members can quickly and simply find a trip that best meets their needs. Joint flights by privately operated jets; members can find and reserve a seating slot on an existing service (available on the top flights in the USA, Europe and the Middle East).

Members are entitled to free travel on all member flights under threehrs, and all long-haul flights begin at approximately US$450 per seated passenger (e.g., New York to San Francisco). JetCharter: Members can tailor and build their own charter flights. As part of this options you can either reserve an entirely for yourself plane or make your own personal shuttles which allow you to buy single places in a plane (between shuttles).

These flights will then open into the JetShuttle area of the application, thus providing a joint journey available to other members. One-way flights on privately owned aircraft, where members can make bookings for a day trip to a new town. If JetSmarter is seen as its competitors at all, who sees it and why?

SS: JetSmarter has no competition in the room. This is the only privately owned airline that works with advanced application technologies (i.e. all reservations are made through the application without the involvement of an intermediary). How much has JetSmarter increased from year to year since its foundation?

We have made such a name for ourselves in the commercial airline sector that over 800 airlines have decided to enter into a partnership with JetSmarter and the application has seen over 1 million downloaded copies. Every months we are offering our members about 4.000+ flights. After all, we want to link the whole globe via our JetShuttle services via a single intranet.

What is the number of financing laps JetSmarter has obtained (if any)? In December 2016, JetSmarter announces its 105 million dollar Series C financing. This trip was one of the most thrilling of my lifetime; however, one of the challenges we took on in our early days was that they didn't think they could travel privately at the introductory fare they would buy.

Our growing and successful businesses have enabled us to make sure that our customers realize that personal aviation is something they can achieve, and that they are able to connect with other like-minded individuals on our aircraft, do businesses, and travel more often than before our JetShuttles. In the last 12 month we have significantly enhanced our personal jets service, with an emphasis on raising our joint schedule flights, known as JetShuttles, through the United States, Europe and the Middle East in major metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Atlanta, London, Paris, Moscow, Dubai, Milan and others.

In 2017, our main emphasis will be on expansion into Asia and South America and the establishment of a complete JetSmarter fleet around the world.