Airhitch

Airhitch
Non-commercial organization
Industry Air travel
Founded 1969
Defunct 2009
Headquarters Cyberspace
Key people
 Robert Segelbaum, Founder

Airhitch was a user-run system for hitchhiking on commercial airliners. It was started by Robert Segelbaum in 1969.[1] People who travel in this way generally refer to themselves as Airhitchers. Most airhitchers fly between the United States and Western Europe. Before Airhitch migrated to internet based communication in the 1990s, it operated out of North American offices including New York, Los Angeles (Santa Monica), San Francisco, Seattle, Montreal, and Vancouver, and numerous European cities including Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Bonn, and Rome. Airhitch is a non-commercial system/method/process. Today, virtually, all exchange of Airhitch information takes place in an AIM chat room. In the chat room, Airhitchers use their real names, while the staff use screen names such as Airhitch01, and Airhitch08.

Since 2006, the cost and availability of "Airhitchable" flights has been questionable. Before the website (airhitch.org) and business went defunct in 2009, the majority of "AHers" opt to help each other find conventional airfare to their destinations.

The Classical Airhitching Process

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sascha Segan. "What a Difference a Hyphen Makes: Untangling the Air(-)Hitch Confusion". Frommers. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

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