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My thoughts on this newest of plans by Surf Air are mixed. This plan could make\u00a0sense from a cost stand point if you want to fly the airline on an intermittent schedule. If you didn’t need to fly on the airline for three months, and then needed\u00a0five flights within a single month this structure of this plan makes so much more sense than the standard plan. Additionally, it’s very flexible if you travel with different people as they can be guests and accompany you on a flight (again, up to four persons). A guest can even take a flight on their own by using one of the member’s passes.<\/p>\n
Where this plan could really make sense is as a small company or group plan. After the first year\u00a0the carry cost is $3,000 per year (first year waved), and then you could purchase the package you desire naming one person in the company as the “member”. The company could then\u00a0then use the flights as needed\u00a0for\u00a0employees, customers, or other associates.<\/p>\n
The limitation to this plan, and moreover to Surf Air in general, is the airline’s flight network. In addition to the three Bay Area and two Southern California locations there are just seven other airports severed by Surf Air. Napa, Monterey and Truckee up north and Carlsbad, Palm Springs and Santa Barbra in the south (Las Vegas as well). Admittedly this is a fair representation for the major population and vacation locations in California, but it has some holes. Notably Sacramento and San Diego which were both dropped earlier in the year. Still, for some these locations could work. The cost per flight is also expensive, penciling between $600 to $750 per segment depending on which package is purchased.<\/p>\n
The other risk is that Surf Air being is a new and startup airline. Will it be around in one, two or even five years? It has lasted three years so far, but the airline business is changing and uncertain at best. Again, the answers to these questions will be known in the fullness to time.<\/p>\n
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