BlackJet Launches: Book Seats on Private Jets at Business Class Prices

Members enrolling now will be able to book their travel through the site, www.BlackJet.com, on November 1st with flights beginning as early as November 15th.

BlackJet technology provides instant confirmations for seats, and booking takes just a few seconds. BlackJet makes private jet travel accessible at reasonable cost by enabling clients to book seats at affordable published rates, instead of paying for the whole plane.

BlackJet has cracked the code for selling seats on private jets. Prior to its digital launch, the company delivered approximately 3,000 seats on over 800 flights. Now, BlackJet is leveraging new technology to scale up, make it simple to book seats in seconds, and reduce seat prices so a much larger segment of the air travel market can afford to fly private. While the company does not own jets or employ pilots, it delivers guaranteed seats on-demand, and connects the traveler with qualified, safety-rated private jet operators seamlessly and almost instantly. The traveler only needs to be a member and decide when he or she wants to travel. Currently, BlackJet is invite-only to ensure its very high service standards for all members.

Initially, BlackJet will be available for flights between Los Angeles and New York as well as between New York and South Florida. San Francisco is being added to the network in January, and will be connected to Los Angeles, New York and Las Vegas. Up to 15 markets and more than 100 service connections are planned for 2013.

Investors currently backing BlackJet include Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, First Round Capital and Shervin Pishevar, an early investor in Uber and a pioneer in the collaborative commerce space. Others include: SV Angel, Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, Michael Birch, Naval Ravikant, Rick Marini, Noah Goodhart, Thomas Ryan, Josh Spear, Jay Levy, Peter Pham and Mike Jones from Science-Inc., Dan Rosensweig, Stephen Russell, Tim Ferriss, Matt Mullenweg, Ryan Sarver, Steve Jang, Shakil Khan and David Ulevitch. Precedent Investments--a private equity investment partnership comprised of Jeff Kearl, Chairman of Skullcandy, Josh James, Chairman and CEO of Domo--and Overbrook Entertainment--an entertainment company founded by Will Smith and James Lassiter are also backing BlackJet. Roc Nation, a record label, management, music publishing and entertainment company, is backing BlackJet as well.

www.BlackJet.com