Phil
The trouble with flogging other peoples empty legs are:
1/ They are dependant upon your first trip not cancelling out. The broker who sells
your empty leg at 100% profit is going to be mightly hacked off if the trip
cancels and will probably pressurise the operator to operate anyway.
2/ When clients pay for a return trip, albeit the return sector empty, strictly speaking
that leg belongs to that client. If he found out that it had been sold to somebody
else IMO he has the right to ask for half his money back.
3/ If too many operators participate it will only serve to drive prices down even
more.
The profit margin in a good year in this business is about 5%. Most of that comes from the occasional "double bubble". The only winners in the long term in this empty leg business are clients looking to buy a £ for 80p and the broker/organiser who has nothing to loose.
I would far prefer a gathering of operators that pooled information on empty legs, so any benefits can be retained by the operators who are the most hard pressed at the moment. All we would have to do is open a secure intranet site for Operators Only.
Somebody mentioned Avinode as a complete waste of time. It is for the operator but wonderful for the broker. I would love to hear from an operator who says avinode provides him with anything other than rock bottom priced trips