We're just a bunch of friends who hate paying $800 for a flight that was $200 yesterday :)
So we built a way to stop getting gouged. An ergodically aligned collective mechanism to protect each other from extractive pricing algorithms.
Airlines use algorithms to maximize what you pay.
Here's what that looks like.
Your emergency is their payday
Average $700 premium on last-minute domestic flights. Your urgency is a revenue opportunity.
3-10x markup
Same seat. Same plane. Same crew. Different price because you needed it sooner.
It's not supply and demand. It's an algorithm.
Airlines use dynamic pricing AI trained on one objective: maximize revenue extraction.
What if we just... looked out for each other?
Flight Club is an ergodically aligned collective mechanism.(Don't worry, we'll explain.)
In a system with pricing volatility, individuals get destroyed by outlier events. A $200 flight becomes $1,200 when you need it most.
But a pool of people, sharing the risk, experiences the average. The wild swings that bankrupt individuals become gentle ripples across a collective.
"The house always wins — unless the house is a mutual aid society."
We're exploring several paths.
All of them beat getting fleeced.
Honest note: Pure insurance has challenges (adverse selection, moral hazard). That's why we pair the pool with the models below.
The first rule of Flight Club is: tell EVERYONE about Flight Club.
We put "lol" in the domain because laughing is what you do when the alternative is crying into your $1,100 same-day ticket to see your mom in the hospital.
The airline industry made $29 billion in profit last year. They employ teams of PhDs to build pricing algorithms that extract maximum revenue from your urgency, your grief, your inflexible schedule.
We think the correct response to that is a collective structure that makes their extraction irrelevant. And also: lol.
This isn't a startup. There's no VC money. There's no exit strategy. It's just people pooling resources to protect each other from systems designed to pick them clean.
The airlines built an asymmetric weapon: they know your price sensitivity better than you do, and they use it against you in real time. We're building the collective shield.
We're building this. Want in?
Flight Club is in the research and design phase. Drop your email and we'll let you know when we're ready to fly.
No spam. No algorithms. Just humans.