Internet air travel system

• US 20040078210A1
• Filed: 10/22/2002
• Published: 04/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert S. Segelbaum
• Original Assignee: Robert S. Segelbaum
• Inventors: Segelbaum, Robert S.
• Application Number:
  US10/279,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20040078210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

An Internet Air Travel System that enables the utilization of excess seating capacity on commercial aircraft to transport passengers in an economic manner along region-to-region route-corridors as opposed to along specific routes or itineraries and whereby said transportation takes place at an indefinite moment within a window or interval of time as opposed to at a specific time.

Claims

1. An Internet air travel system comprising the steps of:

a. publicizing the system to a select group of travelers;

b. providing indoctrination to interested travelers of said group, with general details of and the ultimate goal of said system.

c. screening and selecting selected ones of interested travelers predicated on selected parameters and registering them for said system use;

d. establishing a constantly-updated data-base of air transportation schedules and availabilities, and users thereof, and determining probabilities of vacancy rates on airplanes flying said schedules;

e. establishing via the Internet a constantly open channel of communication between said registered users of said system and the air transportation; and

f. providing real-time data and information necessary to enable said registered user to utilize said air travel transportation system to economic advantage.

2. The system in accordance with claim 1 wherein the provisions of step (f) are effected by past users of the system.

3. The system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said publicizing communications which are accomplished through the Internet exclusively, except as specifically noted.

4. The system in accordance with claim 1 wherein agreements exist between the provider of the Internet air travel system and air-transportation providers.

5. The system in accordance with claim 1 wherein the selected ones of interested travelers are selected from the population sector consisting of including principally, but not limited to, college students and retired persons.

6. The Internet Air Travel System in accordance with claim 1 wherein the data of step (d) are initially obtained from and made available by air-transportation providers, and subsequently refined by application of past experience with various variables on the part of the staff, all of which are users of the system.

7. The Internet Air Travel System in accordance with claim 6 wherein the channel of communication of step (e) is established exclusively by means of the Internet.

8. The Internet Air Travel System in accordance with claim 7 wherein telephonic and other means are utilized with respect to providing the real time data and information of step (f) only in cases of emergency.

9. The Internet Air Travel System in accordance with claim 8 wherein said traveler is issued a one-time use number which is utilized by the airlines for billing purposes.

10. The Internet Air Travel System in accordance with claim 1 which additionally includes boarding flights, at the last possible moment before seat-perishability, that are leaving during a generic time-window, to take said traveler along a generic itinerary of benefit in conveying that traveler to or toward where said traveler wishes to go.