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Fly Atlas

Entrepreneur First '25

London, GB · Founded 2025 · 2 known investors

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Atlas is a B2B private aviation booking platform that connects travel platforms, brokers, concierge services, and corporate travel teams to vetted FAA Part 135 operators, offering live aircraft availability, firm all-in pricing, and end-to-end trip management via its platform or API. Its operator network spans dozens of countries across North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia, with deepest availability in the US and Europe.

Also known as Atlas

Founders & leadership

Fly Atlas was founded in 2025 by Minseo Jeong and Hatem Absi.

MJMinseo Jeong
Minseo JeonginCo-Founder and CEOMinseo Jeong started his first company at 17 and grew it to $600K in annual recurring revenue, going on to launch several other ventures in Web3 and education technology. In 2025 he worked as a private jet broker, developing an extensive network of operators and brokers.
HAHatem Absi
Hatem AbsiinCo-Founder and CTOHatem Absi earned a Master's degree in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, and has worked across commercial and cargo aviation, CF6 engine programs, Formula 2 performance design, and automation at Jaguar Land Rover. At age 20 he became the first employee of a crypto company later valued at $17 billion.

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Atlas (flyatlas.ai) operates a private aviation charter service that combines a human aviation team with software connected to charter operators' scheduling systems. According to the company's website, users enter a route, dates and passenger count into a web-based trip builder, which matches an aircraft to the distance and passenger load and returns a priced estimate without requiring an account or a phone call. The site presents an illustrative Nashville (BNA) to Aspen (ASE) itinerary of 1,024 nautical miles for six passengers in a super-midsize aircraft, with an estimate from $26,300.

The platform's stated scope covers sourcing, contracting, ground services and disruption recovery in a single system. Atlas says quoted pricing holds to contract and that the assigned tail is confirmed, with an equivalent or better aircraft agreed with the customer if an operator must substitute. Sourcing, ground transport and catering are described as writing to a single record so that changes propagate automatically; the site depicts a workflow of instant estimate (about two seconds), confirmation and digital contracting with named tail, named operator, safety rating and line-item pricing in under an hour, automatic population of cars, FBO and catering from a customer profile, and system-driven replacement sourcing in the event of weather, aircraft-on-ground or crew timeout. The company also describes continuous, automated vetting of certificates, insurance and third-party audits.

Business model

Atlas positions itself between traditional charter brokers and app-based booking products, providing brokered charter trips sourced across a wide operator network with an assigned account team. Pricing is presented as an all-in figure that holds to contract, covering the flight plus ground transport and catering arranged through the same system (source 0). The sources do not disclose fee structure or commission terms.

Traction

Company-stated figures include 13,000+ aircraft on the operator network and roughly two seconds to a priced estimate. A worked example on the site cites a scan across 2,100+ operators, 68 network trips and 14 empty legs, yielding a $26,300 quote versus a $47,900 typical broker price (about 45% lower) for the illustrative BNA-ASE trip. No customer counts, revenue or booking volumes are disclosed in the sources (source 0).

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, risks & controversies

Market position

Atlas presents itself as an infrastructure layer for charter that occupies a middle position between broker desks and consumer charter apps; the sources contain no third-party market share, ranking or competitive analysis.

The site contrasts Atlas with traditional brokers (described as high touch, low leverage, working a single rolodex with phone-call-based availability) and with app-based booking products (low touch, high volume, single inventory, prices often re-quoted). Atlas claims a priced answer in seconds, competition across many operators, prices that hold to contract, live rather than directory-based availability, confirmation of the specific tail or an equivalent/better substitute, a dedicated human per trip, integrated ground and catering, and up-front operator and safety ratings (source 0).

Technology

A pricing engine connected directly to operator scheduling systems returns an estimate in roughly two seconds. Before an option is displayed, the system cross-checks aircraft availability, maintenance schedule, pilot availability and cabin crew availability against the operator's own schedule (this check is labelled beta on the site). Matching logic scans the operator network for trips already moving and for empty legs repositioning near the requested route in order to lower price. Sourcing, ground and catering data write to one shared trip record (source 0).

Go-to-market

Self-serve entry through an online trip builder that produces an instant estimate without an account or phone call, followed by digital contracting and a named account contact for the trip (source 0).

The website addresses charter customers booking point-to-point private jet trips, illustrated with an individual/small-group itinerary of six passengers on a domestic US route (source 0).

Risks & controversies

No controversies, litigation or regulatory issues concerning this company appear in the sources. Nearly all available material is the company's own website, and performance figures such as pricing advantage, network size and response time are self-reported and unverified; the availability cross-check feature is described as beta (source 0). Several retrieved documents refer to unrelated entities sharing the name (the Drosophila Fly Cell Atlas and FlyAtlas 2 gene-expression database, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, and a US charter firm branded Fly Atlas Jets / Atlas Aviation, LLC) and were excluded.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Aircraft on operator networkJan 202613,000 aircraft
Operators scanned for pricingJan 20262,100 operators
Time to priced estimateJan 20262 seconds

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Fly Atlas do?
Atlas is a private jet charter platform pairing a dedicated aviation team with a pricing engine connected to operator systems.
Who founded Fly Atlas?
Fly Atlas was founded by Minseo Jeong, Hatem Absi in 2025.
Who are Fly Atlas's investors?
Fly Atlas's investors include Entrepreneur First, Floating Point.
Where is Fly Atlas headquartered?
Fly Atlas is headquartered in London, GB.