You may never have to suffer through LGA hell again.

What do happens when you take a private jet and make it more affordable? That seems to be the concept behind the burgeoning air taxi industry.

The idea of the service is that it’s not just for your boss. By relying on smaller, underutilized airports, the flights are intended to be a competitive option for distances/locales that people would otherwise have to drive to or rely on cumbersome mainstream connections. And it turns out that at least in some situations, the air cab option might be cheaper, to boot. One situation priced out by CNN pitted an air taxi operator against a mainstream carrier for a flight from Tallahassee to Gainesville. Using DayJet, the flight would take 1 hr, 10 mins and cost $288 - $864; with Delta the flight would take 4 hrs, 30 mins and cost $957.

You’ll not find a lot of information on pricing on these websites. Here’s why:

How much a DayJet flight costs will depend on how flexible a traveler’s schedule is. The price of each flight will range from $1 to $3 per mile. A 329-mile, one-hour flight between Boca Raton and Tallahassee, for example, will cost nearly $1,000 each way if the traveler can’t give DayJet more than a 75-minute window to work with.

But if the customer agrees to fly anytime between, say, 7 a.m. and 1 p.m.–a six-hour window–the flight might cost only $329 each way. The wider the window, the more options DayJet has to meet the reservation.

If that sounds like one big math problem, it is. At DayJet, the numbers are being crunched by a bunch of Russian math geniuses and serial entrepreneurs. And they’re solving the problem not by trying to model demand, but model people’s lives and likelihood of taking various trips, according to the Atlantic Monthly.

Air taxi operators tend to be regional players and include several companies serving the Southeast, like DayJet, ImagineAir and SATSair, thought many of these startups are growing like gangbusters and intend to ultimately serve airports nationwide, though with a local flying area.Linear Air offers service throughout the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and eastern Canada, but its max trips are 1,000 miles.

Another benefit of air taxis is that chances are you’ll get to carry your full sized grooming products again. That’s because once you get on the TSA approved list, you’re good to go — no more searching prior to each trip.