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Surf Air Mobility announces launch customers for SurfOS Software

Surf Air Mobility Inc., a leading US regional air mobility platform, today announced it has entered into agreements with six air operator beta customers to use SurfOS, its AI-enabled software platform for the advanced air mobility industry. The early launch to third-party beta customers marks an acceleration in the timeline of the software initiatives of the company's transformation plan.

SurfOS is powered by Palantir Technologies, a global leader in artificial intelligence, enterprise data analytics and business intelligence. SurfOS is designed to increase efficiency, decrease costs and drive productivity for stakeholders across the advanced air mobility industry.

Launch customers will have access through SurfOS to customised tools built to improve charter flight distribution, manage customer relationships and improve flight pricing, while unlocking direct-to-consumer flight distribution for air operators. As functionality and features are added, these customers will have access to further enhancements that will enable them to become vertically integrated mobility companies.

“SurfOS is building an end-to-end solution that will allow us to seamlessly sell our charter flights directly to consumers and integrates the operational complexities we face daily with an intuitive interface that our entire team, from dispatchers to pilots, has embraced,” said Toby Woods, founder and CEO of Bend, Oregon Part 135 Direct2 Air, one of Surf Air Mobility's SurfOS launch customers. “It's challenging as an on-demand air carrier to find software partners who not only have both the skills to develop top-notch user interfaces, but also truly understand the detail and precision required by aviation's dynamic operational and stringent regulatory environment.”

“We believe that SurfOS will be the category-defining technology platform for the advanced air mobility industry. We are creating an operating system that is addressing the needs of aircraft operators, brokers and owners, all of whom have a real need for modern aviation software enhanced with AI and big data,” said Sudhin Shahani, co-founder and board member of Surf Air Mobility. “Individually, those industry participants could not affordably develop this broad suite of customised applications or organise their data onto a single platform. Given that we work with over 400 air operators through our On Demand platform, we are well positioned to bring SurfOS to market at scale.”

Surf Air Mobility continues to launch new SurfOS features, including recent rollout of:

- Flight distribution tools for third-party operators to expand flight margins by increasing direct-to-consumer sales

- AI-based charter broker tools to automate sales and sourcing processes

- Direct integrations with charter supply partners to improve real-time aircraft availability and pricing

- Resource planning for ground staff and pilots to gain efficiencies and cost savings

- Business intelligence dashboards for operational and financial reporting

- Pilot management application for Southern Airways and Mokulele Airlines brands

- Multi-lingual and multi-currency On Demand marketplace capabilities

The company previously announced that it intends to form Surf Air Technologies, a new venture that will develop, market and sell SurfOS to the advanced air mobility industry, consisting of thousands of Part 135 regional air operators (small aircrafts limited to under 30 seats with a 7,500 pound maximum payload), of which the company's Southern Airways subsidiary is one of the largest Part 135 commuter operators in the U.S. by scheduled departures.

Surf Air Mobility is considering bringing in external investors to capitalise the Surf Air Technologies venture.