Flying used to be cool. We're helping bring that back.
Flying used to be an event.
People dressed up for it. The seats were wide. The food was real. You walked across the tarmac and up the stairs and felt like you were doing something kind of glamorous. Even if you were just going to Cleveland.
Now? Now you pay $400 to sit in a seat designed by someone who hates the human body. You board by group number like cattle. There's a fee for your bag. A fee for picking your seat. They'd charge you to breathe the cabin air if they could figure out how to meter it. The whole experience has been engineered to extract the maximum amount of money while delivering the minimum amount of dignity.
I got tired of it. So I started looking into alternatives and discovered something that genuinely shocked me: semi-private flights exist, they fly 40+ routes across the US, and some of them cost $200.
Not $2,000. Not $20,000. Two hundred dollars. For a flight on a nice small plane, out of a private terminal, with actual legroom, where they know your name and you're not fighting anyone for overhead bin space.
Operators like JSX, Aero, Tradewind, and BARK Air have been running these flights for years. The problem is nobody aggregates them. Each operator has their own website, their own search tool. Finding the best option means opening 4 tabs and doing detective work.
So I built Aviato. One search. Every semi-private operator. Every route. See what's available, compare prices, click through to book. Completely free. No accounts. No upsells. No "sign up to see prices." Just type where you want to go.
Because honestly? The airlines turned flying into a greyhound bus with wings. And the alternative has been sitting right there the whole time, most people just didn't know about it.
The first time I walked into a private terminal for a JSX flight, it hit me. This is what flying used to feel like. The calm. The space. The feeling that you're about to go somewhere, not just endure something. Semi-private still has that. And I think more people deserve to experience it,not just people who already run in private aviation circles.
That's why Aviato exists. Not to sell you anything. Just to show you that the way flying used to feel isn't actually gone. It's just been hiding.
Completely free, forever. No accounts. No upsells. Just search and go.
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