Lead guest
Give every party one clear contact.
Identify who owns the request and how staff should contact them.
- Name, email, and mobile number.
- Preferred contact method and call time.
- Group name when relevant.
Describe your flights and scheduling process. Makeform creates a hot air balloon booking form for party size, date choices, guest details, and operator notes.
Send booking requests to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a starting point, edit the details, or send the prompt to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Couples and small parties requesting seats on a shared flight
Format
Booking request with date choices and passenger roster
Prompt size
275 chars
Example form structure
Booking request with date choices and passenger roster
Lead guest name and contact details
Preferred and alternate flight dates
How many passengers are in your party?
Passenger names and age groups
Mobility or access information to review
Suggested routing tags
New requests
Date review
Group flights
Ask for a preferred date and an alternate date because weather-dependent flights often need a practical second choice.
Step 1
Request
date choices, party size, and lead guest
Step 2
Review
capacity, passenger notes, and flight option
Step 3
Confirm
operator sends the agreed schedule and details
Step 4
Prepare
passengers receive meeting and day-of updates
Why use a booking form
A purpose-built form asks every guest for the same details before your team checks the schedule.
Keep the lead guest, seat count, passenger names, and age groups in one request.
Ask for a first choice, alternatives, or a flexible date range for scheduling review.
Collect access information, pickup needs, celebration notes, and guest questions for review.
Built around your flights
Choose a ride type, then edit its labels and follow-up questions.
Capture seat count and passenger details for parties joining a scheduled basket.
Ask about the occasion, private capacity, preferred dates, and operator-provided add-ons.
Collect a coordinator, headcount, date range, roster, transport needs, and billing contact.
Match the voucher code to the recipient while gathering fresh passenger and schedule information.
Booking workflow
Give the builder your ride choices and passenger questions, then publish.
List shared flights, private rides, group charters, vouchers, pickup options, and flight windows.
Require contact and party size, then show group-only questions conditionally.
Send requests to the booking inbox and organize dates and status in your workflow.
Distinguish a request from a confirmed seat; staff send final arrangements separately.
Form vs phone vs generic inquiry
Structured intake combines schedules, seat counts, and passenger information for review.
Field guide
These six sections give your team enough context to review a ride request while keeping the form understandable for guests.
Lead guest
Identify who owns the request and how staff should contact them.
Date preferences
Separate the first choice from alternatives and offer real flight windows.
Party size
Collect a total for quick review and a roster for follow-up.
Passenger notes
Ask neutrally about practical needs and state that staff will review them.
Ride options
Offer the ride types and add-ons your operation provides.
Request status
Explain that staff review requests before sending arrangements.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for operators replacing incomplete emails and phone messages with structured booking intake.
Collect lead guest details, date choices, ride type, party size, passenger names, age groups, and operator notes. Add voucher, pickup, or group fields when relevant.
For review-based scheduling, call it a booking request. Staff can check capacity, dates, and notes before sending confirmed arrangements.
Use separate fields for the preferred date and alternatives, or ask flexible travelers for a date range.
Yes. Use conditional logic after the ride-type choice. Private rides can reveal occasion fields; shared flights can focus on seats and passengers.
Ask for a coordinator, headcount, age-group counts, date range, transport needs, and a roster entered in fields or uploaded.
Yes. Ask for voucher code, purchaser name, recipient contact, date choices, party size, and passenger details.
Yes. Makeform includes unlimited free forms and responses. Generate, edit, publish, and collect requests for free; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Responses appear in your Makeform inbox. Connect Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier to organize dates, route group requests, or track follow-up.
Make every flight request easier to review.