‘Air Uber’ seeks to take off

Published June 6, 2016 2:38pm ET



A team of private airplane pilots is building support in Congress and with limited-government groups to overturn a Federal Aviation Administration decision to ground their plan for aviation ridesharing, similar to Uber and Airbnb.

Called “Flytenow,” founders Matt Voska and Alan Guichard, aided by the Goldwater Institute and Americans for Tax Reform, are pushing to win support for an amendment to the pending Federal Aviation Administration funding bill to clear their plan for takeoff.

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