Legal & Lege Trend: Air Share Regulation

Ride share has come to air travel, welcome air share. 

What’s the court hubub about air share? FAA thinks air share is tantamount to an illegal sharter airline.

What’s Air Share reponse that they are a legal, new part of the sharing economy?  Federal regulations, long before the internet, have allowed pilots to share:

• the cost of fuel
• aircraft rentals
• airport fees 

What happens next? The DC Cicruit will rule and either the case will be settled or will be appealed to the US Supreme Court.

L.A. Times | Flytenow, the aviation version of Uber and Lyft, is locked in court battle with regulators