No commission on a ticket
We take nothing from an airline ticket, and it is a rule rather than a stage we intend to grow out of. It is what makes the recommendation worth having: the answer cannot move with where somebody books.
Pre-launch
A layover is inventory that expires unsold.
Hundreds of millions of hours a year are spent in transit halls by people who had somewhere they could have been. The hours are not missing — they are unpriced. We compute how many of them are genuinely usable, and when the traveller has to be walking back.
What we will not do
Three rules the rest of this rests on.
The pass is never for sale
Status is earned by travelling and never bought, and the credential is funded by the operator.
An unmeasured number says so
Every figure carries which era it belongs to and how well it is known. A total missing one of its inputs is not a smaller total — it renders as absent, with the reason attached, rather than as a confident zero.
For airports, airlines and venues
Four people stand around the same layover.
Hours for the passenger. A filled stopover. Landside dwell. A provable redemption. One computation.
Airport operator
Layover GDP
Dwell that leaves safely beats dwell that paces the gate.
- Funnel by hub
- Sourced figures
- Tenant scoped
Standard
Verified Hub Program
What a hub certifies, and where it stands.
- Engine-enforced tiers
- Assessment, not brochure
- Atlanta first
Venue and merchant
StayShare
Settles what actually happened at your counter.
- One-tap redemption
- Exportable statements
- Designed dispute path
Airline and developer
Roll Pass ops and the API
Fund the credential, or read it from the endpoints.
- Carrier funded
- Eligibility endpoints
- Attribution on handoff
No live redemptions yet. Traffic starts with Atlanta. The consoles open with it.
Apply to partnerHow we vet
No stage advances because a week passed.
An application starts at applied. Every stage after it is reached by filing evidence, and by nothing else — not by time, not by a status anybody sets, not by chasing us. The table is the one in our own code, so what it says we will ask for is what the pipeline will actually ask for.
| Who you are | verified | signed | provisioned | live |
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| A venueA cafe, bar, restaurant or shop that can serve a passenger on a layover. |
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| A hotelDay rooms and short stays for passengers between flights. |
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| A city or tourism boardFunding visits and promoting what a layover can reach. |
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| An airlineFunding passes for your own passengers at a hub you operate. |
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| A platform or developerIntegrating the API rather than trading through us. |
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Signing runs against an in-product redline today; the countersignature vendor is not chosen yet, so that rung is the one we move by hand. Everything either side of it is evidence-driven and append-only — nothing on an application is ever edited, and who filed what is taken from their session rather than typed.