Wingly

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Wingly
(BERLARIC SAS)
legal form Société par actions simplifiée (SAS)
founding 2015
Seat Paris , France
management Bertrand Joab-Cornu
Emeric de Waziers
Lars Klein
Number of employees 21st
Website www.wingly.io

Wingly is a shared airline that connects private pilots with other people on the Internet. The Mitflugzentrale was founded in 2015 on the principle of the sharing economy by the German Lars Klein and the two French Bertrand Joab-Cornu and Emeric de Waziers. The business model was made possible by a new EU regulation from 2012. As of March 2018, Wingly had 150,000 customers, including 10,000 pilots across Europe.

history

founding

Wingly was founded in 2015 as a German-French sharing economy start-up . Wingly started in France in July 2015, followed by Germany in February 2016 and the UK shortly afterwards in August 2016. Other countries are to follow in 2017.

The Mitflugzentrale aroused displeasure when, in September 2015, French pilot unions feared that this principle could endanger jobs. The French supervisory authority for civil aviation, the Direction générale de l'aviation civile , unceremoniously declared the principle of cost sharing among pilots to be illegal. This was in contrast to the EU regulation, whereupon a working group started at the European Aviation Safety Agency . Today the principle of shared-cost flights is recognized throughout Europe.

Seed funding

In March 2018, the company was the first airline operator to collect successful seed funding of two million euros. Among others, since this round renowned investors such as former Vice-Chancellor Philipp Roesler , CEO of why Stephane Mayer, but also Howzat Ventures, a venture capitalist , on board.

Awards and public recognition

The Mitflugzentrale was awarded the Prix Jean-Louis Gerondeau by Zodiac Aerospace and the renowned Parisian École polytechnique in October 2015 . In 2016, the award in the start-up category of the German Aviation Innovation Prize followed , hosted by Bitkom , the BMWi and the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry . The biggest award to date was given to Wingly on May 24, 2018: the TechCrunch Battlefield Startup Disrupt Prize, endowed with € 25,000, as part of VivaTech Paris.

Shared cost flights

Wingly's business model is based on the mediation of flights between pilots and passengers. A pilot creates a flight and enters it on the internet platform. The passenger books this and shares the costs with the pilot. The pilot does not earn anything from this activity, even pays the same amount as the fellow flyers. Due to a sometimes confused legal situation, Wingly came under criticism several times until the respective federal aviation authorities and finally also the EU Commission made it clear that this cost sharing is legal and does not require a professional pilot license .

In the United States, however, this cost-sharing model is prohibited. The American start-up FlyteNow is currently fighting (as of December 2016) in proceedings before the Supreme Court against the ban issued by the Federal Aviation Administration , since only flights on a cost-sharing basis, mediated on websites, are prohibited. Flights among friends are therefore still allowed.

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Regulation (EU) No. 379/2014 of the Commission of April 7, 2014 amending Regulation (EU) No. 965/2012 of the Commission on the establishment of technical regulations and administrative procedures with regard to flight operations in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. . 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council , accessed on December 22, 2016
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  5. ↑ Interview with Lars Klein, co-founder of the Wingly Mitflugzentrale . In: Gründer.de . December 12, 2016 ( gruender.de [accessed December 22, 2016]).
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  7. ↑ Press release on financing. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Fondation de l'École polytechnique: Fondation de l'École polytechnique - Accueil site de la Fondation. In: www.polytechnique.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ IDL 2016: German Aviation Innovation Prize. In: www.luftfahrtistinnovation.de. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Startup Battlefield Europe 2018 Winner: Wingly - TechCrunch. Retrieved May 28, 2018 (American English).
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  13. ↑ Frederic Lardinois: Flytenow Shuts Down After Court Rules Against Flightsharing Startups. In: TechCrunch. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
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