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New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas

Posted by samzenpus on from the going-my-way? dept.

v3rgEz (125380) writes "A new service, Airpooler, matches pilots with passengers looking to head the same way. Since it's not an officially licensed charter service, prices are limited to roughly the passengers' share of the gas, giving pilots a way to share the expense of enjoying the open blue and flyers a taste of their personal pilot."

6 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Just don't fly.. by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's better than into the ocean

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    rewriting history since 2109
  2. um... by edibobb · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think I want to get into an unknown plane flown by an unknown pilot who needs to share the fuel bill.

  3. Re:Potential FAA issues by Richy_T · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, cloudy skies :D

  4. Tried to start this in 1987 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We tried to do something similar in 1987 -- reservation system for the charter airline industry to fill the "dead" legs (return flights). Prototyped on Tandy 6000 (8MHz 68K, 1M RAM) and PCs with IBM EGA cards (yes, EGA, not VGA).

    Never did get it off the ground....

  5. Re:Potential FAA issues by plover · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, it's still murky waters if random-pilot-of-the-day does it wrong...

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    John
  6. Re:Having a private pilots license by jratcliffe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Granted, it's probably not going to be the most gentile landing

    So I should look to land on a nice cushy Rabbi?