{"57545":{"#nid":"57545","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Per-Seat, On-Demand Persists","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBusiness \u0026amp; Commercial Aviation\u003C\/em\u003E - Jan 26, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no shortage of Monday morning quarterbacks with opinions about the reasons for the demise of DayJet, the Florida-based air taxi company that ceased operations in September 2008. But DayJet\u0027s business model - the company called it \u0022per-seat, on-demand\u0022 - has come in for scrutiny in the aftermath, and if that business model is flawed, as some believe, there may be lessons to be gleaned for the industry. .  . George Nemhauser is a professor at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at GEORGIA TECH and, together with professor Martin Savelsbergh and several Ph.D. students, forms the academic brain trust that spent four or five years developing DayJet\u0027s software. He says he\u0027s a believer in the PSOD model that DayJet used. \u0022I think there\u0027s a need for something in between commercial and charter, which is so much more expensive, and this provides exactly that,\u0022 he says. \u0022Unfortunately the airplane didn\u0027t arrive at the right time, but I think the model makes total sense.\u0022  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story_channel.jsp?channel=busav\u0026amp;id=news\/bca0109p4.xml\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-01-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}