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The Brief

Private aviation has always been an all-or-nothing proposition: you either charter the whole aircraft or you don't fly. PlaneFlyer's founders wanted to change that — letting pilots who already have a flight planned offer spare seats to paying passengers, and letting people book sightseeing or scenic round flights the same way they'd book a rideshare. The concept was straightforward; the execution wasn't. The platform needed to handle a fundamentally different booking logic from commercial aviation — dynamic routes, pilot-defined departures, flexible passenger counts, and regulatory nuance around cost-sharing flights — none of which standard ticketing software was built for.

What We Built

We built PlaneFlyer from the ground up as a two-sided marketplace: one interface for pilots to list flights, set available seats, and define route details; another for passengers to search, filter, and book in real time. Flight discovery was built around flexible search — passengers could look for flights from a specific airfield, within a radius, on a given date, or simply browse what was available nearby for a scenic trip. Booking logic handled variable seat counts per aircraft type, per-seat pricing, and automatic availability updates across concurrent sessions. Payment processing, booking confirmation, and pre-flight communication between pilots and passengers were all handled within the platform.

The Result

PlaneFlyer launched with a working product that covered the full user journey — from flight listing through to post-booking coordination — without relying on any third-party ticketing layer. The two-sided marketplace model held up under real usage, with pilots and passengers operating through distinct but integrated flows on the same platform. The client had a genuinely novel product in a niche that hadn't been properly served by software before, built in a way that gives them room to expand into new markets, aircraft categories, or regulatory environments without rebuilding from scratch.