October 23, 2025
Jet sharing community app Eye In The Sky inks alliance with Stork Club.
Eye In The Sky, an online community app that enables members to share private jet flights has partnered with Stork Club.
Stork Club SVP John Williams says, “This is about taking the Stork Club lifestyle to altitude. Our members live for experiences that can’t be replicated, and this partnership makes private travel part of the experience itself.”
Stork Club called the deal “hospitality membership with direct, built-in private aviation access.”
Eye In The Sky’s Anthony Fatone said, “Partnering with Stork Club means introducing our aviation model to members who already embody that philosophy.”
Fatone was described in the press release as the founder of Eye In The Sky.
We covered Eye In The Sky earlier this year in our report, “Websites, online groups offer cheap private jet seats. Is it legal?”
At the time, Eye In The Sky was pitching for coverage of its community.
Chapman Ducote, whose signature was titled “Founder,” eventually referred us to Fatone, whom he described as the president of sales.
The initial pitch by Eye In The Sky boasted, “We have lots of FlexJet, NetJet(s), and other fractional owners and jet card clients on our platform.”
NetJets and Flexjet are the two largest private jet flight providers in the U.S., measured by charter and fractional flight hours.
While principally flying under Part 91K, both do operate flights under Part 135.
For that report, a spokesperson for the unit of Berkshire Hathaway told us, “NetJets’ agreements with our customers prohibit the selling of hours or seats to ensure compliance with all applicable FAA and IRS regulations. An inherent benefit of the NetJets program is that an owner can choose who uses their share or card. Upon request, we can coordinate the sharing of costs between NetJets customers’ contracts, but the selling of hours or seats is expressly prohibited.”
A Flexjet spokesperson added, “Although our fractional owners own the asset, as the operator of the flight, selling seats on their aircraft — even if the titled owner is present — is not a practice we condone, help to facilitate, or believe to be in alignment with the intent of FAA regulations.”
Initially, Ducote emailed, “[We’re] preparing to market our network more broadly, and I’d love to have a conversation with you to tell you a little bit more about Eye In The Sky.”
He added, “Eye In The Sky was born-not as a pitch deck, but as a purpose-built solution for a broken system.”
His pitch:
‘Eye In The Sky is an exclusive marketplace with a verified community of private jet owners, operators, and flyers where members can seamlessly buy and sell seats or empty legs, all on a single integrated platform.
Alternatively, if you can’t find the flight you’re looking for, you can post a Flight Interest, creating a group chat within the platform to connect with others of similar searches and needs-letting the demand create the supply!
Whether you’re a frequent first-class flyer looking to enjoy all the benefits and convenience of private aviation without the full cost of chartering an entire aircraft, or a private jet owner, fractional owner, charter customer, or private jet card holder wanting to offset costs by offering your available seats, this platform is your one-stop shop.’
Ducote said Eye In The Sky is an evolution of several WhatsApp groups he started.
Screenshots provided to Private Jet Card Comparisons of an online group, where Ducote is one of the administrators, show members posting specific routes, including departure and arrival airports, dates, date ranges, exact time slots, and per-seat pricing.
In some cases, they state the programs that are operating the flight, which would violate program rules and could constitute an illegal charter.
When we asked Ducote on June 12th and 19th how his website handled regulatory compliance issues that appeared in the online groups.
Ducote did not respond to our questions until after The Wall Street Journal’s article was published, when we contacted him again.
Ducote then referred us to Fatone, who is the president of sales for Eye In The Sky.
Ducote also stated that he considered his emails to be off the record.
He did not want to be named in the article.
However, it wasn’t until his fourth email that Ducote said he wanted to remain behind the scenes.
We never agreed that our email exchanges were off the record or that he would not be included by name.
In Fatone’s response to us, he answered our questions.
He provided screenshots showing the joining process for the Eye In The Sky website.
Members posting interests need to check a box which states, “I certify this flight is operated in compliance with all FAA rules, regulations, and requirements.”
Fatone added, “We do not determine anything regarding flights. We also don’t provide regulatory compliance advice for platform users.”
He wrote, “The most glaring difference I want to point out between sites you are likely looking at and Eye In The Sky is we don’t sell anything! We are a private aviation membership community platform.”
Fatone continued, “We are a software-as-a-service business. We don’t create flights, but are rather a private network open marketplace. Flyers – buyers – directly contact Hosts – sellers, but Hosts – sellers – also directly contact Flyers -buyers.”
Fatone wrote, “Hosts must acknowledge and accept our terms and conditions, privacy policy, and legal pages confirming they are in operational control of any flights they post and are fully compliant with FAA regulations – Part 135, 91, or other.”
He believes, “This indemnifies us for non-compliance.”
He added, “Travel sold on Eye In The Sky, be it charter, empty leg sales, or per-seat charter, is generally on flights operated under Part 135, not Part 91 or 91k. Additionally, there are limited circumstances in which limited reimbursement of expenses is permitted under Part 91.”
Jessie Naor of Private Aviation Safety Alliance wrote on LinkedIn, “In aviation, true cost-sharing refers to a limited exception under FAA rules that allows private–non–commercial, Part 91–pilots to share the direct operating expenses of a flight with their passengers. This applies only under strict conditions: the pilot cannot make a profit, all parties must have a common purpose, and the pilot must pay their pro-rata share. This is typically used by private individuals flying for personal reasons, not by operators or charter customers.”
As to members violating their program’s rules, Fatone told us, “We are not a party to contracts our users may have entered, other than their agreements with Eye In The Sky. Users are solely responsible for ensuring the activity they engage in on our platform does not violate any contractual obligations they may have to third parties.”
In terms of Ducote’s role as an administrator to several of the online groups, Fatone wrote, “There are a number of administrators on these other mediums, but there remains no control as to who is present, or what gets said there, creating a number of questions and concerns surrounding security, privacy and infinite issues on endless scrolling; a very inefficient way to connect and spend your time.”
Fatone said security and privacy issues, as well as endless scrolling, are reasons members pay to join the website.
“Eye In The Sky doesn’t have those problems, as we are not open to the public,” he says.
Like the others, Eye In The Sky executives say they have had their actions scrutinized by lawyers and believe what they are doing is beneficial to the industry.
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