I've joined WayFare Travel!



I have recently begun a new chapter of my life in #traveltech - and I’m still excited to be joining Jamal Whorms-MonDésir and Andrew Diggle as co-founders and part of the flamboyance🦩 at WayFare 🛫 The "Jetscape Navigator" of the team ;-)


In a lot of ways it’s continuing the same long term mission as 15below in improving #paxex and #cx, making travel systems suck a little less. However, the move from B2B to B2C opens up new ways of fulfilling that. There is so much we can do in the search, inspiration, and booking spaces to make things easier and more social

Trying to avoid the cliched phrases of unprecedented times and new normal, there are two aspects that need to be addressed in getting people back flying - 1) minimising the physical risk to passengers' health and 2) financial risk from cancellations.

We are looking at how we can use layaway for the airfare portion to help alleviate the financial issue. Making it easier to save and book flights, without high credit charges or missing out on those early bird fares.

Layway for airfare, however, is just the start as ...

  1. Travel isn’t currently built for the customer 
  2. We’re building for the customer 
  3. We’re reaching for the unbooked
We have some pretty exciting plans for what travel could look like when it works for the customer. When this happens, we believe that everyone will benefit. 

Any ex-pats who fly home, we know how much it sucks sometimes. Take this short survey and help us fix it. Also, listen to our "Diva of Departures" Jamal talk to Nick Telson and Tom Savage all about it over on the Pitch Deck podcast

So, If you’re a VC or Angel Investor specialising in TravelTech in pre-seed/seed rounds, then get in touch. We are currently raising! We’re building for a post-COVID world. Want to come along for the ride and shaping the new normal?

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