In a 1:1 meeting not long ago, my boss asked why I don’t register somewhere with a shorter wait list then charter a private jet to fly to the transplant center when the call comes. Looking at data from the previous post, there are lots of large transplant centers with probably half the wait times as Southern California.
Of course, someone else already thought of the idea and started a business. I found OrganJet online.
OrganJet provides an information service, as well as options for timely and affordable air transport, for patients who are multi-listed or distant listed for organ transplants in the U.S.
Looking at their Patient Transportation Services, it seems they only provide transport for flight times that are less that three hours. Since I can drive to Phoenix or Sacramento, this would only be useful for Oregon and Washington transplant centers. All the major transplant center in Texas and the Midwest are too far away.
The founder of OrganJet, Sridhar Tayur, is a professor at Tepper School of Management at Carnegie Mellon University. I wonder how much he makes from this side business.
Life with chronic diseases 