Sharing Economy Attracts New Business To General Aviation
The high-technology sharing economy business model is bringing new investment in general aviation companies.
New companies are betting that a business model built on sharing will prove its value in the aviation  market, as it has for cars and hotels.
New companies are betting that a business model built on sharing will prove its value in the aviation market, as it has for cars and hotels.

Until recently, the sharing economy enabled by modern technology has been limited to industries less regulated than aviation such as taxicabs (Uber, Lyft, Sidecar), hotels (Airbnb) and cars (RelayRides). But now the sharing economy is coming to general aviation, in the form of new ways to rent airplanes (OpenAirplane) and systems for sharing expenses and empty seats in Part 91 non-commercial aircraft (AirPooler and Flytenow). There is no sign yet that the sharing economy has reached the highly regulated charter market, although some saw empty-leg broker BlackJet as such an attempt.

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