Charter and fractional operator FlyExclusive is expanding its B2B services with flight scheduling and optimization software.
FlyExclusive continues to expand beyond its core fractional and charter operator business, filing a utility patent application for an aircraft scheduling optimization architecture and launching Contrails, its flight management system, which it is making available to other charter operators.
Both announcements were made at the NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference.
The industry event is taking place this week in Cleveland, Ohio.
The patent application is App. Ser. No. 19/568,916 and is titled Aircraft Schedule Optimization.
It is described as “a novel architecture that fundamentally changes how aircraft fleets handle scheduling and disruption recovery.”
It continues, “Rather than recalculating schedules from scratch each time conditions change, the system does the hard work in advance—precomputing valid options across the full fleet so that when something goes wrong, the answer is already there.”
According to FlyExclusive, “The result is near-instant schedule recovery during irregular operations, with a performance advantage that grows as fleet size and complexity increase.”
Chairman and CEO Jim Segrave says, “We have spent years building FlyExclusive into one of the most operationally capable private aviation companies in the country.”
Segrave says, “Contrails is how we make that expertise available to the broader industry—and the intellectual property behind it reflects the depth of investment we have made in solving problems that matter to every serious operator.”
Segrave adds:
‘We believe the right technology, built by people who actually run flights, changes what is possible in this industry. Today, we are unable to source lift for nearly 300 trip requests per day. We believe Contrails will allow us to address that demand far more efficiently—both within our own operation and through coordination with other operators—and that represents a material revenue opportunity for FlyExclusive and for all participating operators.’
Contrails is purpose-built for Part 135 operators.
It was developed with intellectual property acquired from Volato Group, including its Mission Control flight management system.
Per the announcement:
‘The result is a system informed by the real-world demands of operating at scale: scheduling, crew compliance, dispatch, disruption recovery, fleet optimization, and wholesale charter coordination, integrated into a single platform. Contrails is designed for the complexity that large Part 135 operators actually face—not the complexity that software vendors imagine they face.’
FlyExclusive said the announcements reflect its “broader strategy of making vertical integration a performance advantage—not just an operational structure.”
Other business lines include maintenance, paint, refurbishment, and avionics through its in-house MRO facilities in Kinston, North Carolina.
It is also an authorized Starlink dealer.
FlyExclusive ranks as the fifth-largest U.S. operator based on charter and fractional flight hours.
Segrave had teased some of today’s announcements in the company’s most recent earnings call.
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