Rob Enslin

How to buy seats

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:30:26 +0100

For seat buyers - to buy seats

If you need to travel on a certain day you can use the search facility on the home page by selecting your route (departing and arriving airports) and date of departure. You can choose to look at returning flight too. If you find a seat select the seat numbers you like using the seating plan map to guide you and click ‘Buy Seat(s)’. The seats and their cost is added to the ‘Itinerary’ located floating on the top right hand side of the page. You can continue browsing for seats - you won’t loose your seats, however they will be cleared if not purchased 10mins after you added them.

More than one way to buy a seat

In order to help make private jet travel affordable we’ve provided a couple of ways to buy seats. This excludes chartering your own aircraft of course.

Fixed Price For Seats - you pay the price you see.
Fare Share Price For Seats - the cost of your seat(s) is shared equally amongst all the passengers.
Bid Price For Seats - make an offer for a seat and where the offer is sufficient to cover the cost of the flight your offer is accepted.

When selecting your seats notice that on some flights labelled ‘Fare Share’. When you select seats the price per seats comes down. And the price will always come down, for everyone who books a seat on that flight.

How’s that you may ask? Let me explain. The member who first charters the aircraft pays the full amount. That member will have made some of their seats available to you, so as you select seats the costs are always going to be shared equally, until every seat is sold and everyone pays the minimum amount, equally divided up.
Listen up as this is important. If you bought a seat for £5,000 and then later another member books seats on your flight you will be reimbursed with the Fare Share of the costs. Until, as I mentioned, all the seats are sold at the lowest price equally divided up.

Where a flight is a ‘Fare Share’ flight you may also bid for a seat. Just like online bidding websites. Of course it does not guarantee your seat but if enough people bid or buy and the total cost of the seats is covered your bid will trigger and you’ll get your seats at your bid price. Unlike a straight ‘Fare Share’ flight this price won’t come down, but you’ll most likely have secured it at a fraction of the actual cost.

Visit the seat availability pages and take a look around. Pretend you’re booking seats and see how the costs are calculated. When you’re done let me know how it went. Email me at rob.enslin@flyvictor.com, or why not call me at +44 (0) 7590 52 8890.

* you are not guaranteed of selling your surplus seats.

"INVEST in hiring and firing and pay people to leave"

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:31:30 +0100

“INVEST in hiring and firing and pay people to leave”

- Brian Kalma at Zappos

Establishing a job role

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:36:00 +0100

For the last year-and-a-half I’ve enjoyed a varied job function - moving from task to task. My digital remit is vast and can range from interpreting website traffic analysis through to setting up social networks and communities. This is fine except there’s an important part missing - a job role aligned with strategy and the business case. Having no real strategic direction is frustrating and aimless. I’m responsible for finding solutions to internal client requests, but I struggle to understand how the tasks supports our digital strategy?

Recently I’ve been asking myself how I can make a *real* difference - add value to our digital goals and ultimately to the outcomes of business goals (and profit). I’m passionate about user-centred approaches - where we focus on the user by putting their needs first. Further it aims to give users (visitors, community members, exhibitors, subscibers etc) great experiences and ensures our product/service engages them ultimately leading to conversion.

In the next few weeks I’ll be looking to establish and present a user-experience program.

Video

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:30:55 +0100

I volunteered to help the Surrey League marshall the second...

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:19:33 +0100

I volunteered to help the Surrey League marshall the second stage of the Revolutions 5 Day Stage Race. I arrived at the HQ with 15 minutes to spare but quickly assigned to my marshall point. I grabbed my red flag and reflective jersey climbed on my bike and headed out.

Once there I settled in and set up my station. The intersection I manned was quite busy. The riders passed three times. Without incident I moved to my second marshall point to secure five laps. No problems again.

I headed back to the HQ to drop the equipment off and then headed home.

By the end of the day I completed 85km and 02:50 averaging 147 bpm (beats per minute).

Photo

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:39:57 +0100

Blog or micro-blog?

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:02:01 +0100

I’ve been toying with the idea of using tumblr again to post my thoughts, ideas and general comments? I’ve spent a lot of time on our corporate wiki and quite enjoy it.

the MacBook Air

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:46:53 +0000

Apple boss Steve Jobs has unveiled what he says is the world’s thinnest laptop - the MacBook Air.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7188849.stm

Black Cab Sessions A good friend of mine recently introduced me...

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:14:00 +0000

Black Cab Sessions

A good friend of mine recently introduced me to the Black Cab Sessions. Music at it’s best - pure and pleasurable

Confused commuters

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:37:00 +0000

With Informaton Services ubiquitous nowadays, I had to chuckle this morning on the train (between Clapham Junction and Waterloo) when the automated ‘invisible’ voice completely *cocked* up the travel announcement - apparently we were arriving at Queenstown Road station as we entered Waterloo. Just an example how IT boo boo’s can be humorous.