Offering acquired air transport rights and sharing resulting revenues

A method comprising:

• receiving a description of rights to air transport covered by an air transportation agreement with an air charter operator, wherein the rights are received by an original booking party;
• determining, using a microprocessor, a subset of potential incremental passengers to receive a transport offer from the original booking party;
• notifying a portion of the subset of potential incremental passengers of an available portion of the received rights, wherein the available portion of the received rights are offered in exchange for a passenger fee;
• and
• as a result of acceptance of the offered available portion of the received rights, sharing the passenger fee among the air charter operator and the original booking party.

A method comprising:

• receiving, in a transport rights sharing platform, a description of original booking party rights for air transport covered by a transportation agreement with an air charter operator;
• receiving in the platform a description of a portion of the original booking party rights to be offered to incremental passengers;
• offering through the platform a portion of the original booking party rights to incremental passengers for a passenger fee;
• and
• as a result of acceptance of the offering, sharing the passenger fee among the air charter operator, the original booking party, and an operator of the platform.

A hierarchical web-based system for facilitating an offer of a portion of acquired air transportation rights, comprising:

• a communication and notification facility for providing time-based offers of a portion of the acquired air transportation rights to incremental passengers using a hierarchical notification process;
• a rights offer guideline facility for providing seat pricing and flight segment guidelines;
• a reservation facility for accepting the time-based offers;
• and
• a transaction facility to facilitate purchasing the offered rights.