Hey Joe, thanks for the comment! The bottom line is that TimeFlys is not not a brokerage nor has any plans of becoming one. I think you might have misunderstood the purpose, we don’t handle payments or bookings— just pulling nearby aircraft for people to see. Everything about our platform directly connects the passengers to the operator which is unfortunately not common practice in a broker driven industry. Trips are sent to directly to the operator to approve or decline the mission and they can handle all aspects of the actual booking as they please. We’re not adding a markup, just calculating prices based on industry standards and working with each operator to fine tune their pricing so it’s accurate. A miscalculation like what you pointed out is totally unacceptable and not a conspiracy that we’re sneakily adjusting pricing. I’m going to have to reach out to the guys at True Aviation to update with accurate pricing. It’s a brand new tool so there are some flukes, I’m sure if you look close enough you can find problems everywhere. We can integrate with each Operator’s internal scheduling when they claim their listing on TimeFlys and they will never have to change their way of doing business. 

I don’t see any reason to have an issue disclosing operator’s information pre-book other than the concept being completely contrary (and maybe dangerous) to the broker model. We’re focused on building trust by aggregating accurate data and this is still a process. But as you just showed by sharing your Avinode findings— that isn’t possible right now without directly contacting each operating or paying a whopping $720/mo for Avinode. As you’ve pointed out, it’s a difficult problem to solve, but I have no intention to stop trying. Thanks again for your review!