SEATCLEARA new revenue stream on the seats you have already sold
Passengers lose billions on non-refundable tickets they can't use, while your fullest flights depart with no-show seats empty. SeatClear lets one passenger's unusable ticket become another's seat, only on sold-out flights. You set every price, reissue every ticket and run all the money, and you always earn at least what a cancellation would have earned you.
Concept preview: figures are illustrative and any carrier shown is a sample. You are merchant of record; no passenger money ever passes through SeatClear.
Six ways a held seat changes hands
Sell, Buy, Offer, Swap and Trade run only on sold-out flights and non-refundable tickets, gated behind your loyalty program. Gift runs only on flights that aren't sold out, so it can't be a back door to a sale. You set every price and every fee, and you earn on every transaction.
Every sale clears on rails you own
Nothing moves without you. A listing goes live only once you have sold every seat you can, placed your oversold passengers and marked the flight full. You price the seat, the buyer pays through your own checkout, you reissue the ticket in the buyer's name, earning your points, and you pay the seller out. You are merchant of record and system of record: no passenger money passes through SeatClear, and you pay us our share once a month.
A second sale on a seat you already sold
A resold seat is a full airline ticket: reissued instantly, earning your points, and a fresh chance to sell your own extras. At checkout the buyer is offered your add-ons, bags, Wi-Fi, lounge, a better seat, all optional, at your prices and charged by you; SeatClear takes 10% of add-on sales. Without SeatClear that seat flew empty, and there was never a second bag sale on it.
You keep control. SeatClear is the software layer.
You decide when a full flight opens to SeatClear: a week out, three days, 48 hours, your choice. You set the price on every listing, and that price is the floor: on Offer, money only moves up from it. You can pause a flight, end a listing or change a price at any time. You keep every passenger record and run all the money on your own systems, and we never see your private pricing data. The airline-side integration, reissue, loyalty, live pricing, payments and settlement reporting, is built and run around the clock by a specialist airline order-management partner. Code escrow and buyout rights are in the contract, so there is no lock-in.
{
"flight": "VL218",
"trigger": "sold_out_and_cleared",
"seat": { "from": "12A", "reissue_to": "buyer" },
"price": { "cents": 80000, "set_by": "airline" },
"settlement": {
"seatclear_base_fee_cents": 4000,
"airline_base_fee_cents": 4000,
"seller_fare_back_cents": 30000,
"seller_profit_share_cents": 16800,
"airline_profit_share_cents": 25200
},
"merchant_of_record": "airline",
"status": "pending_airline"
}The math on one sale
A $300 ticket on a sold-out flight whose last published fare was $500, listed by the passenger and sold at $800. Two base fees come off the top, the seller gets back everything they paid, and the profit splits 60/40 in your favour. There is no separate reissue fee on a sale: your 5% covers it. Illustrative figures.
Cancellation versus SeatClear
When a passenger can't fly, you already keep the fare and resell the seat, so why route it through us? Money. Take a non-refundable main-cabin ticket bought for $300 on a sold-out flight whose last published fare was $500. Cancel, and the passenger gets a $300 credit, of which airlines expect about 85% to be used. The $300 is already yours in every row; the table shows what you earn on top of it.
| WHAT HAPPENS | YOU EARN ON TOP OF THE $300 | PASSENGER GETS |
|---|---|---|
| Passenger no-shows | $0. The seat flies empty. | Nothing |
| Passenger cancels, main cabin | $245. Resells at $500, but the credit costs about $255. | $300 credit |
| Passenger cancels, basic economy | $500 on paper. $0 in practice: with no credit there's no reason to cancel, so they no-show. | Nothing |
| SeatClear, sold at $500 | $115 ($25 base fee plus $90 profit share). Below your floor; you wouldn't price here. | $360 cash |
| SeatClear, sold at $720 | $245 ($36 base fee plus $209 profit share). Same as a cancellation: your floor. | $439 cash |
| SeatClear, sold at $800 | $292 ($40 base fee plus $252 profit share) | $468 cash |
| SeatClear, sold at $900 | $351 ($45 base fee plus $306 profit share) | $504 cash |
| SeatClear, sold at $1,000 | $410 ($50 base fee plus $360 profit share) | $540 cash |
Against a normal cancellation, SeatClear matches you once the seat sells at about $720, roughly 1.44 times its last fare. That is your floor: you never price a seat below the point where you earn your cancellation number, and every dollar above it is more than you would have earned on your own. At $800 you earn $292 instead of $245, with no credit sitting on your books. On a sold-out flight the listed seat is the only seat for sale, so your last fare is where demand starts, not where it ends. Cancel-and-resell is capped at the walk-up fare. SeatClear isn't.
| FUNCTION | WHO PAYS | AIRLINE | SEATCLEAR | EXAMPLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sell | Buyer, at your price | 5% + 60% of profit | 5%, capped at $100 | $300 → $800: you $292, seller $468, SeatClear $40 |
| Offer | Buyer, if the holder accepts | 5% + 20% of profit | 5% + 10% of profit | $250 → $400: you $42, holder $327, SeatClear $31 |
| Swap | The asker, your fee | 10% of the fee + any fare difference | 10% of the fee | $100 fee: holder $80, you $10, SeatClear $10 |
| Trade | The asker, your fee | 10% of the fee + any fare difference | 10% of the fee | $100 fee: holder $80, you $10, SeatClear $10 |
| Gift | The recipient | $20 reissue fee | $10 flat | Recipient pays $30; the gifter pays nothing |
| Add-ons | Buyer, optional | Your price, collected by you | 10% of add-on sales | $43.00 of bag and Wi-Fi: SeatClear $4.30 |
You process every payment and pay SeatClear its share once a month. No listing fees, and the buyer pays the price shown, nothing more.
Nine lines, nothing hidden
The first six are on transactions and are live at launch. The rest are built on top once the marketplace is running. No projections here; this is the list.
- Sellat launch
5% of the sale price, capped at $100.
- Offerat launch
5% of the price plus 10% of the profit.
- Swapat launch
10% of the airline-set fee.
- Tradeat launch
10% of the airline-set fee.
- Giftat launch
$10 flat, paid by the recipient.
- Add-ons at reissueat launch
10% of the bags, Wi-Fi, lounge and seat products the buyer adds at checkout. Without SeatClear there is no second sale on that seat.
- Advertisinglater
Travel-affiliate placements on the confirmation screen, hotel, car and insurance, then display inventory as the audience grows. All subject to your brand approval.
- Corporate programlater
An annual subscription for company travel desks, priced by travelers and tied to flying your airline: lower base fees, priority listing visibility, a travel-desk dashboard, monthly reporting. Sold through your corporate sales team, revenue shared with you.
- Premium membershiplater
Better terms follow your status tiers. Not a subscription today: it earns through retention and repeat volume.
Your status tiers, worth more
Better terms on SeatClear follow your own status levels. We sell no tier and run no ladder of our own: it is not a subscription, it earns through retention and repeat volume, and it gives frequent flyers one more reason to keep their status. You need a membership to use SeatClear, so every buyer is already your member.
| MEMBER | SILVER | GOLD | PLATINUM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early access to listings | None | 30 min | 1 hour | 2 hours |
| Tickets listed at once | 3 | 5 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Open offers at once | 2 | 5 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Gifts a year | 2 | 5 | 10 | Unlimited |
| SeatClear base fee | 5% | 5% | 4% | 3% |
| Search ranking | Standard | Standard | Higher | Top |
| Support | Standard | Priority | Priority | Dedicated line and concierge |
- Money: 60% of the profit on every passenger-initiated sale plus 5% of every sale price, the same as ours, and never less than a cancellation would have earned. A reissue fee on every gift, and a second ancillary sale on every reissued ticket.
- Overbooking untouched: you sell every seat you can, oversold ones included, and mark the flight full. That flag is what switches SeatClear on. We fill the no-shows beyond what you oversell, and the cabins you don't overbook at all.
- Loyalty: every buyer is your member, every purchase earns your points, better terms follow your own status levels, and every gift enrols a new, verified member.
- No capital in, no lock-in: you are merchant of record, you pay us monthly, and code escrow and buyout rights are in the contract.
Sanctioned, not scalping
You set every price, and your price is the floor: nobody can go below it, and any higher number a holder asks for comes to you before a buyer sees it. SeatClear sets no floor, ceiling or suggested price of its own. The sold-out-only trigger, loyalty gating, and name and age drawn from your own records make bulk-buying and touting unprofitable and traceable. Listings can only come from tickets synced from your records, so a fake listing cannot exist, and buyers and sellers never see or contact each other.
Concept preview: security architecture and controls reflect the production design, not a completed audit.