ABJ Highlight: Seat Swapping in the Sky

Back NATA News / November 11, 2025

In the latest Aviation Business Journal, Paul A. Lange covers the unauthorized individual seat sales and the inadvertent risks to part 135 on-demand air carriers. The rising popularity of seat-sharing platforms and passenger peer-to-peer arrangements have introduced increasing potential for legal exposure to operators. What happens when charter clients or individual passengers seek to monetize, offset the cost, or simply recoup their investment in a trip by selling individual seats?