#123: Flytenow and Plane-sharing

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

You’re probably familiar with Uber and ride-sharing. But do you ever wonder why there isn’t something similar for air travel? A plane-sharing app? There was one, actually, but the Federal Aviation Administration shut it down. In December of 2015, the FAA banned flight-sharing, a ruling that forced the startup Flytenow to shut down its platform. Flytenow allowed private pilots to share the cost of flying with passengers going to the same destination by connecting them online. The company has sued the FAA to overturn the ruling, and TechFreedom and the Cato institute filed a brief in support of Flytenow. Evan and Berin discuss.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech policy podcast. I'm Evan Schwarzenegger. On today's show, Flight Now and Plain Sharing.
0:10.8	We talked about this on the show before, but you might have wondered to yourself before, why don't we have something like Uber for the skies?
0:18.5	Why don't we have something like plane sharing? And we did at one point.
0:22.9	And then the FAA made it illegal. Back in December of 2015, a company called Flight Now was shut down
0:29.6	when the FAA determined that it was illegal commercial transport. Joining me to discuss this is
0:35.7	Barron Soka, President of Tech Freedom. You know, I was trying to think of a
0:39.4	nice insult to start the show, but I'm losing my game on this. Because you've missed me. I've been
0:44.8	away for the last month and you're just so happy to have me back that you couldn't think of anything
0:49.0	unkind to say, right? Well, yeah. I mean, that's probably it, really. It's just having you back in DC, Barron, just the dynamic is just so positive.
0:56.4	You know, there's just a great atmosphere around the tech freedom office right now.
1:00.1	I'm sure listeners can kind of imagine it, you know.
1:02.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:03.3	Yeah, until we do a video podcast, they're just going to have to imagine how happy I am to see you and recognize that my face is matching the words that I am saying.
1:12.4	You'll be even happier when we have more tech freedom flair.
1:15.6	There are T-shirts coming just so everybody knows.
1:17.9	And when we do have T-shirts, we are going to have a T-shirt contest.
1:21.8	And all you're going to have to do is something simple.
1:24.2	Like tell us which episode that Barron is not on is your favorite, because
1:27.6	we already know that your favorite episode is not going to be one where Barron was the guest.
1:31.7	I'm going to bet it's one of the 15 episodes you've done on Uber with Jared.
1:35.9	Yeah. You know, for the less sophisticated listeners, right? Yeah, but 15. Yeah. Maybe some of the
1:40.9	more wonky people will really love that one we did on Spectrum or something like that, something more wonky.
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