The artificial intelligence-powered FMS will replace Fly Alliance’s existing flight management system across its entire operation.
Two of the largest U.S. charter and fractional operators have inked a B2B deal.
Fly Alliance, ranked 14th, will use FlyExclusive’s Contrails FMS, ranked 5th.
The artificial intelligence-powered flight management system is free and will replace Fly Alliance’s existing flight management system across its entire operation.
The announcement was made during NBAA-BACE 2026 here in Las Vegas.
According to the press release, “Operators manage their own fleets and schedules independently, often leaving aircraft underutilized, repositioning opportunities unrealized, and customer demand unfulfilled.”
Contrails FMS lets participating operators and brokers access authorized, real-time aircraft availability across participating fleets, making it easier to book flights on one another’s aircraft.
The patent-pending scheduling optimizer aims to reduce empty legs, improve aircraft utilization, increase yields, and generate additional revenue.
Based aircraft can have more than 50% of their flights flown without revenue passengers, or empty legs.
Floating fleet operators, like FlyExclusive and Fly Alliance, can see repositioning flights make up around 30%.
Operators retain ownership and control of their data.
Contrails FMS is designed with tenant isolation and controlled information sharing.
Operators do not need to share customer identities, customer relationships, proprietary pricing, or other commercially sensitive information to participate.
FlyExclusive intends to share the same aircraft scheduling and availability information it asks participating operators to share.
FlyExclusive Chairman and CEO Jim Segrave says, “We don’t want your customers or your proprietary information,” adding, “We want to know when your airplanes are available so we can book flights on them, and we want you to know when ours are available so you can book flights on ours.”
“For operators like Fly Alliance, the real opportunity isn’t just reducing software costs,” says its CEO Chris Tasca.
He adds, “It’s improving aircraft utilization, eliminating unnecessary inefficiencies, and creating more opportunities to generate revenue.”
Contrails FMS combines aircraft scheduling, crew compliance, dispatch, maintenance visibility, disruption recovery, fleet optimization, and AI-assisted workflows in one operating platform.
It is built on technology used in FlyExclusive’s own operations and intellectual property acquired from Volato Group, including Mission Control.
The company announced the product earlier this year.
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