We have no problem using a voucher company.
Must admit its only one company we use.
Can't see how it kills it, as we have customers we probably wouldn't have had.
There are six companies looking for business where we operate.
What do we lose. Local rag asks us to advertise in their newspaper.
£45+vat for a 3x5 cm advert. I say no.
Then explain how many takers we might get from that...One, by past experience. Then it takes profit from several flights to pay for the advert.
We don't lose out as some continue as students, but no worse than the one's we sell direct.
I treat everyone as potential student, even if they fly on the last day the vouchers valid. Some have become students.
Today there are too many other things for people to spend their money on.
Flying no longer as a mystique it had say 30 years ago.
When I started in the late seventies I was the Airfix, Battle of Britain film generation.
Flying was seen as exciting. Today people think of Bryanair and long security queues at airports when they think of flying.
So long as the aircraft are flying by whatever means, I get paid and the aircraft remain available for aircraft hire.
Flying in general is in slow decline, still an expensive hobby.
No good as a business tool, example last night wanted to go to Bristol at 18:00.
Handling charge for a 1.1tonne aircraft £225, what a joke!
Last edited by BigEndBob; 7th Dec 2014 at 20:17.