But it struggles to attract the lawyers, financiers and other professionals it needs.Not everyone is fresh off the plane, or booking their flights home.
Flyers can search for their airline and plane before booking a flight to avoid the more uncomfortable places to sit on the aircraft.
Be it arranging pop stars, or the more frequent requirements of buying plane tickets, booking hotels, and reserving tables in upmarket restaurants, representatives from such companies can take control of all this.
At Plane Food, bookings for tables of 12 or 14 businesspeople are not uncommon, said Stuart Gillies, who works with Mr. Ramsay and oversees the restaurant.
It was a time before the British holidaymaker had even heard of the Costa del Sol, and when the package holiday abroad was a mere twinkle in the eye of a man called Vladimir Raitz who pioneered the idea of chartering planes and booking hotels en masse for the ordinary Briton.
Another woman turned to the table and asked, "But how are we going to get to Vail?" The answer, everyone agreed, was aboard your own plane -- by booking a charter, buying a time-share or hopping a ride with a friendly mogul.
Giving travelers opportunities to reserve hotels, car rentals and other services as they're booking plane tickets, as Delta is doing, helps bring in extra revenue for those sales and keeps customers from switching over to sites like Expedia or Travelocity.
"I immediately started selling my furniture and belongings, and started booking plane tickets.
A pool of unassigned passengers lets the airlines fill the plane without double-booking seats.
"I know its not only disappointing because of the show, but it's plane tickets, hotel bookings, birthdays, anniversaries and time wasted," she wrote.
