For hot air balloon flight operators
Online booking for your hot air balloon flight
A hot air balloon flight has a real limit — the basket seats allowed by that day's weight allowance — and it also depends on wind and visibility at sunrise, so confirming by phone the night before is common in this business. The problem shows up when you need to notify several groups at once about a postponement, or when two people book the same seat without knowing it because nobody kept an up-to-date count.
The usual pattern is splitting bookings across calls, WhatsApp messages and word of mouth from the agencies that bring groups, jotting down by hand how many basket seats are left for each sunrise. That works with a handful of flights a week, but in high season — with your own bookings, gift vouchers to redeem and agency groups on the same morning — it's easy to lose track of how much weight allowance is actually left in the basket.
What changes with your own page
- →You publish each flight with the real basket-seat capacity for that sunrise, without relying on jotting down by hand what's left based on the weight allowance.
- →Customers pay by card when they book — if the flight gets postponed for wind or fog, you handle the refund or reschedule directly, without depending on collecting payment at the launch site.
- →As soon as you know a flight won't take off, you deactivate it from your dashboard and it stops accepting new bookings for that time slot, without risking more confirmations.
- →The gift voucher lets you sell the experience without a fixed date, and whoever receives it picks a sunrise within the real capacity available.
See what it would look like
The demo uses a surf school as its example, but the flow — pick a slot, see the spots left, pay — is the same one you'd apply to a hot air balloon flight, with its own capacity based on the basket seats available each sunrise. See the demo →
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No monthly fee, no setup cost. Just 6% on whatever gets booked through your page (€2.50 minimum per booking, only relevant on very low-priced bookings).
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