Sanford Amendment Supports Aircraft Ridesharing Sites
Flytenow is looking for help to clarify the legality of communications about flight-sharing.


Having lost its battle with the FAA, ride-sharing website Flytenow is banking on an amendment to FAA reauthorization legislation to make it legal for pilots and potential passengers to communicate about flights where they could share expenses when traveling to the same destination. While it is legal for pilots and passengers to share some expenses when traveling together, the FAA issued legal opinions last summer finding that Flytenow’s program and a similar program operated by AirPooler were commercial activities and that participants would need Part 119 commercial operating certificates.

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