What Wingly does

Wingly is a Paris-based flight sharing marketplace founded in 2015 that connects private pilots holding LAPL, PPL, CPL, or ATPL licenses with passengers seeking unique aerial experiences, enabling legal cost-sharing of flight expenses across more than 2,000 airfields in the UK, France, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The platform hosts 6,000+ bookable flights served by 2,900+ verified pilots and has carried 140,000+ passengers to date. Built around pilot verification, Allianz-backed supplementary insurance (€1 million per-claim pilot liability), and compliance with EASA, UK CAA, French DGAC, and German LBA regulations, the core product is a self-serve web and mobile marketplace where passengers browse flights, send booking requests answered within 48 hours, and meet pilots at airfields.

Wingly monetizes primarily through a transaction fee charged to passengers on each booking, while pilots receive the full cost-sharing contribution. The product portfolio has expanded beyond core cost-shared flights to include a Commercial Operators Program for certified professional aviation partners, digital and premium physical gift cards (£75–£400 denominations) with a corporate B2B sales channel for employee gifting, and a referral program. Distribution is direct-to-consumer via the website and mobile apps, with a small enterprise channel for corporate sales. Earned media in Forbes, BBC News, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, and The Independent, together with destination content marketing, supports top-of-funnel demand.

The company is venture-backed, having raised approximately €9.6 million cumulatively across four rounds, including a €3.5 million round in early 2024 led by Innovacom with participation from Howzart Partners, angel investors, and a Crowdcube crowdfunding campaign. Co-founder Emeric de Waziers serves as CEO alongside co-founder Bertrand Joab-Cornu. Use of the 2024 capital is explicitly directed at European expansion and reaching profitability by 2025, with the company reporting approximately 30% average annual growth since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Name

Wingly

Legal name

Wingly

Website

https://wingly.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wingly is a Paris-based flight sharing marketplace founded in 2015 that connects verified private pilots with passengers for cost-shared recreational flights across 2,000+ European airfields, monetizing via passenger booking fees, gift cards, and B2B corporate sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Flight Sharing Marketplace

NAICS

Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (481211)

SIC

Air Transportation, Nonscheduled (4522)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Aviation Brokerages & Trip Marketplace Platforms (THABAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Helicopter Passenger Services Brokerage, Booking & Aggregation Platforms (THABAGAJ), Private Aviation Experiences (Charters, Scenic Flights, Helicopter Tours) (THAJALAF)

Keywords

• Flight sharing platform
• Private aviation marketplace
• Cost-shared flights
• Sightseeing flight experiences
• Peer-to-peer aviation

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Passenger Service Fee: Wingly charges a service fee solely to passengers for each booking. This fee covers platform operating costs. Pilots receive the full cost-sharing contribution from passengers while Wingly retains the service fee portion.
2. Gift Card Sales: Sale of digital and premium physical gift cards with denominations of £75, £150, £250, £400 and custom amounts. Premium physical cards charged at £10 per card.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Wingly operates a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting private pilots with passengers seeking flight experiences across Europe. Pilots list their flights on the platform and share direct flight-related costs with passengers, enabling recreational flights, sightseeing tours, and day trips across 6,000+ flights from 2,000+ airfields. The platform handles pilot verification, booking, and integrates automatic Allianz insurance coverage at no extra cost.

Product overview

Wingly operates as Europe's leading flight sharing platform, offering a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects private pilots with passengers seeking flight experiences. The core product enables cost-sharing flights where pilots share direct flight-related costs with passengers, covering 6000+ flights from 2000+ airfields across multiple countries. The platform is complemented by gift card products (both digital and premium physical cards), a commercial operators program for professional aviation partners, and B2B corporate sales solutions for employee incentives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wingly Flight Sharing Platform A peer-to-peer digital marketplace connecting private pilots with passengers seeking flight experiences. Enables cost-sharing for recreational flights and sightseeing tours, listing 6,000+ flights from 2,000+ airfields across Europe. Includes pilot verification, booking requests with 48-hour pilot response, and integrated Allianz insurance coverage up to €1 million per claim.
• Wingly Gift Cards Gift cards available in digital (free) and premium physical (£10 surcharge) formats, in denominations of £75, £150, £250, £400, plus custom amounts. Valid for one year from purchase and extendable within validity period, redeemable on any Wingly flight experience.
• Commercial Operators Program A program enabling professional aviation partners and certified commercial pilots to conduct commercial flights through the Wingly platform, operating under EASA, CAA, and other regulatory frameworks.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average number of passengers per flight is 2, with cost typically shared between 3 people including pilot
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AllianzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvides automatic supplementary insurance coverage for all Wingly flights at no extra cost. Coverage includes pilot liability for passengers and people on ground up to €1 million per claim, valid throughout Europe including most Mediterranean countries and French overseas territories.
• EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency)coreOthersEuropean regulatory body whose standards Wingly complies with to ensure legal and safe cost-shared flights.
• CAA (UK Civil Aviation Authority)coreOthersUK regulatory body whose standards Wingly complies with for operations in the United Kingdom.
• DGAC (French Civil Aviation Authority)coreOthersFrench regulatory body whose standards Wingly complies with for operations in France.
• LBA (German Federal Aviation Office)coreOthersGerman regulatory body whose standards Wingly complies with for operations in Germany.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• NetJets: World's largest private aviation company operating a fleet of business jets under fractional ownership and jet card programs. A broad incumbent in private aviation that competes with Wingly for the high-end of private flight experience demand and absorbed PrivateFly.
• VistaJet: Global business aviation company offering pay-per-flight and Program memberships across an owned fleet. Operates broadly in the same space as Wingly for premium private aviation experiences but without the peer-to-peer cost-sharing model.
• Wheels Up: Private aviation membership and charter platform offering flight access across a managed fleet. Comparable as a broad private aviation marketplace serving experience-seeking flyers, though focused on the US market and corporate clients.

Emerging players

• Blade: Urban air mobility and short-distance flight booking marketplace focused on scheduled and chartered seaplane/helicopter routes in major US and European cities. Overlaps with Wingly on helicopter and sightseeing experiences and follows a similar marketplace GTM.

Others

• GetYourGuide: Largest European marketplace for tours, activities, and experiences including a small aviation/scenic flight category. Comparable to Wingly as a peer-to-peer experience marketplace with strong European presence and consumer booking flow.
• Viator (a Tripadvisor company): Global experiences marketplace owned by Tripadvisor that offers sightseeing flights and aerial tours as a category. Adjacent peer that competes for experience-gifting and tourist booking demand through a marketplace model.

Direct peers

• FlyVictor: On-demand private jet and helicopter booking marketplace with empty-leg and charter inventory across Europe. Closely mirrors Wingly's marketplace intermediation model for private aviation, particularly its helicopter and sightseeing offerings.
• Helipaddy: European helicopter marketplace aggregating flights, tours, and experiences from verified operators. Comparable to Wingly on the helicopter sightseeing and experience side, especially for helicopter tours and private transfers in Europe.
• PrivateFly: Private aviation booking platform and broker for charter flights, now part of the NetJets group. Directly comparable to Wingly in brokering on-demand private aviation experiences, though PrivateFly leans more toward business jet charter while Wingly emphasizes private-pilot cost-shared flights.

Regional players

• Aéroaffaires: European private jet charter broker headquartered in France. Comparable to Wingly's brokerage layer for private aviation bookings, with overlapping European geography (France, UK, Switzerland) and similar target customer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Wingly_UK
• YouTubeyoutube.com/wingly
• Facebookfacebook.com/wingly
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wingly
• Instagraminstagram.com/wingly

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

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