Category : Our Member Stories

19 Dec 2023

Direct2 Grows Business While Maintaining Safety and Flexibility

We explore Direct2’s journey to growth as a small-scale operator with a vision to provide their customers with convenience and quality. Toby Woods, founder and CEO, shares the story of how they maintained safety and flexibility within their operation.

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12 Oct 2023

Odyssey Airways Experiences Growth as Part 135 Operator

We take a look at how one of our customers, Odyssey Airways, grew their business after transitioning from a corporate flight department to a Part 135 operator.

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20 Jul 2023

GrandView Aviation finds success with Avinode Group

We take a look at how one of our customers, Grandview Aviation, utilizes the various solutions from Avinode Group to find success.

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28 Sep 2022

Mike Prachar – How Paynode is proving to be the perfect payment partner for this fast-growing operator

Volato is a private jet operator on the up and up. We sat down with Chief Operating Officer, Mike Prachar, to talk about how Paynode is helping make life easier for his team, how he’s looking forward to the Paynode customer base growing, and the charter-specific features that add real value to his business.

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16 Sep 2022

Chris Kuiper – Removing the barriers to private jet travel

Chris Kuiper is founder and CEO of the Catch-a-Jet app, and he’s on a mission to remove the exclusivity around private jet travel in a way that benefits operators and customers. Chris shares with us the importance of always putting the end user first, and how integrating the Avinode Empty Leg API has helped him create a solution to the empty leg challenge that the industry has long faced.

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09 Aug 2022

Becky Bakeman – How Paynode helps keep things simple for this complex business.

Life is busy for Becky Bakeman. As President of RAI Jets, she oversees a business that specialises in many aspects of private jet charter and aviation. With so many strings to their bow, having a smooth payment process in place is essential. Here, Becky tells us how Paynode simplifies the way she sends and receives payments, the pain of managing payments in the past, and why she thinks more companies should get onboard.

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