I don’t think I’ve seen any reviews of OneGo, I just came across it on Reddit. Basically OneGo is a subscription service that offers unlimited flights for a monthly fee (starting at $1,500 per month). The service just launched officially on February 1st, 2016. Let’s take a look at this program to see if it makes sense.
Contents
Booking
To make a booking, you must use the OneGo mobile application (only available on iOS, Android version will be available in March). To book a flight you do the following:
- Open the app
- Select your date & cities
- Choose from one of the flights presented
- Input your frequent flier number
- Choose your seat
- Book
Restrictions
- All flights must be booked 7 days in advance (they plan to allow flights to be booked up to 6 hours in advance with an add on called ‘Last Minute Booking)
- You can have a maximum of four open reservations at any one time (slot becomes available after you’ve completed your flight. They also plan to offer an add on called ‘More Open Bookings ‘ to give you an additional four open reservations)
- You can book flights up to one month in advance (they plan to change this to however long in advance you’ve paid for your flight)
- Flights must be direct flights
- Only economy seats can be currently booked, but they plan to add premium economy in the feature
- All fares are discounted economy
Fees
OneGo basically offers four different packages, these prices include the following: taxes, government and carrier imposed fees. Fees can be viewed below:
- Nationwide: $2,950 per month
- West: $1,500 per month
- Central: $1,950 per month
- East: $2,300
Basically the different plans unlock different airports you can fly into/out of and different routes as well. In addition to the monthly fee, you’re also charged the following fees:
- Account set up fee: $495
- Change fee: $100
- Cancellation fee: $200
- Baggage & additional services: Same rates as the airline usually charge
There is no minimum commitment.
Nationwide $2,950 Per Month
All of the below
West $1,500 Per Month
Includes the following airports:
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Oakland
- Orange County
- Phoenix
- Portland
- Reno
- Sacramento
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- Seattle/Tacoma
- Spokane
- Tucson
Central $1,950 Per Month
- Albuquerque
- Amarillo
- Aspen
- Austin
- Boise
- Dallas/Ft. Worth
- Denver
- El Paso
- Houston
- Lubbock
- McAllen
- Minneapolis/St. Paul
- Oklahoma City
- Omaha
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio
- Tulsa
East
- Atlanta
- Baltimore
- Birmingham
- Boston
- Buffalo/Niagara Falls
- Charleston
- Charlotte
- Chicago
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Des Moines
- Detroit
- Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood
- Fort Myers
- Hartford, CT/Springfield
- Indianapolis
- Jacksonville
- Kansas City
- Louisville
- Memphis
- Miami
- Milwaukee
- Nashville
- New Orleans
- New York City
- Norfolk/Virginia Beach
- Orlando
- Pensacola
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- Providence
- Raleigh/Durham
- Richmond
- Savannah
- St. Louis
- Tampa
- Washington
- West Palm Beach
Airlines Available
OneGo has partnered with the following airlines and you can choose which airline you fly (as long as a seat is available in an acceptable fare class).
- Alaska Airlines
- American Airlines
- Delta Airlines
- JetBlue Airways
- United Airlines
- Virgin America
Status
You’ll continue to earn frequent flier miles on these flights (and I assume qualifying miles for elite status). You can also redeem upgrades. Unfortunately all these flights are discounted economy and you’ll earn lower miles.
Our Verdict
This is a pretty interesting concept, my first thought was that this would be great for mileage running but with only four open reservations and needing to book seven days in advance you’re practically limited to less than 16 flights a month. Obviously OneGo will be targeting business customers in the hopes that they can drive enough volume to get large discounts from the airlines, they’ll also be following the gym membership model where you’re making your money on people that aren’t using their memberships.
I think a lot of employers will jump on OneGo, if you have employees doing a lot of fly in fly out work and it’s currently costing more than $1,500-$2,950 per month then this would be an easy way to reduce costs. Let me know your thoughts on OneGo in the comments below.
Review pls… Worth?
What?
you missed a major restriction — available tickets are not simply economy, but are very for specific fare classes (discounted economy). As these run out fast on major routes (NY-LA,NY-SF etc..) this restriction will severely affect availability and convenience of scheduling.
Thanks, jo. Added this in.
I just looked up flights from NYC-MIA OW for next Friday and it costs $650+ and $700+ out of EWR. If onego could book a flight for me on that date or a similar type flight it would only take 4 flights to start saving money. The real issue I have is if there is limited to no availability on certain dates which makes their program a total bust in my opinion.
The concept sounds interesting but once you get into the fine print it seems significantly less lucrative.
In the FAQ under “Can I book any flight I want?” it says flights are limited to “any non-stop flight route that is included in our service area as long as there is an available seat within the designated class” … That is a huge limitation… if you’re in the East region and live in a non-hub, you obviously won’t have a ton of nonstops to choose from. I suppose you could use two of your bookings to create a “connection” but then you’re using two of your future bookings. Do that for a round trip and you have used all four bookings.
It also says “All the flights you book through OneGo are direct flights booked as discounted economy class fares.” Now that most everyone is dollar based earning, anyone who buys one of these plans will forego any branded CC spend and will only earn the miles based on a discount fare… I also wonder how many seats will actually be available in the “designated classes” if they are discount economy?
the factor of a “mileage run” these days is not what it used to be. it isnt the number of miles flown for most programs but the cost of the ticket, which means if onego is getting you credited for full fare there is a way this could be extremely lucrative if flights are available on high demand dates. just some food for thought, it might be lucrative but we need some data points, who is ready to test it out?
The FAQ says earning will be based on discount economy… so probably not that lucrative, although someone could presumably book on AA (and AS) and credit everything to Alaska and still earning one mile per mile flown.
Seems like if you lived in an airport that had a lot of oversold flights, you could make some money on bumps?
I think there’s a way to do this where you could hit 20 flights in a 31 day month, but maybe I’m mistaken
Do share?
That will be a corner case and can’t be done every month. May be once in a few months. Otherwise the max will be ~16.
To top it off I think it would require being a member for over one month so you can make the reservations ahead of time. I may be thinking of this wrong, but I was thinking you could do it by taking flights (for example) these dates (and as I’m saying it I sheepishly realize it would be 19 flights, not 20):
1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
1/8, 1/9, 1/10, 1/11
1/15, 1/16, 1/17, 1/18
1/22, 1/23, 1/24, 1/25,
1/29, 1/30, 1/31
As mentioned though, you’d really need to be on your game and be a member the prior month as well.
So you can pay $3k for a month and fly 1M miles and become part of say.. AA’s million mile club and get life time benefits?
Doubt you could rack up 1M miles, you can only have four reservations at a time and need to book 7 days in advance.
I got too excited and didn’t read the whole thing Will 🙁
Thanks for clarifying.