Blade Helicopter App Review and Referral Code

Is the Blade Helicopter App Still Around in 2026?

Yes. flyblade.com now redirects to blade.com, and the current BLADE app (updated in the last week, per the App Store) still advertises exactly the pitch this page was built on: scheduled short-hop flights, on-demand charters, and a “no membership fees” model. According to Blade’s own current app description, scheduled helicopter transfers between Manhattan and area airports (like JFK) start around $195, and the company also books seaplane, jet, and turboprop charters plus a BLADE Black car service for the ground leg of your trip. Blade is a public company now, and it also runs a separate organ-transport and medical-logistics business (MediMobility) — but that’s a different division from the consumer flight booking most people are looking for when they search for a Blade coupon.

What we couldn’t verify directly: Blade’s site sits behind a bot-blocking challenge page for automated checks, so we weren’t able to confirm whether FLYFREE17 (or any specific dollar-amount referral code) is still live in Blade’s current app. We’re keeping the code here since it’s Chris and Lucy’s original code and this page still gets searched for it, but treat the $100 figure as unconfirmed rather than guaranteed.

We still haven’t taken a Blade flight ourselves — this page has always been upfront that our original review was a “coming soon,” based on the app and site rather than a flight we’d actually taken, and that’s still true today. What we can say from the outside: the concept has held up well. Book a seat on an already-scheduled flight, or charter the whole aircraft yourself, all from the app — it’s essentially Uber for short private flights, and BLADE has scaled that idea into a real public company over the past decade rather than folding like a lot of its 2015-era competitors did.