Wingly, the flight sharing start-up, is targeting early 2019 to start its France operations after raising €2m ($2.3m) in seed funding in December. Wingly is a French company, now based in Germany, where passengers and pilots can be matched to agree on the use of free plane seats, with Wingly taking a 15% commission and a €5 charge on transactions. Wingly currently connects 2,000 passengers a month, with its biggest markets in Germany, US and the UK. The start-up plans to be doing comparable business in the France by August 2019.
Wingly, the flight sharing start-up, is targeting early 2019 to start its US operations after raising €2m ($2.3m) in seed funding in December. Wingly is a French company, now based in Germany, where passengers and pilots can be matched to agree on the use of free plane seats, with Wingly taking a 15% commission and a €5 charge on transactions. Wingly currently connects 2,000 passengers a month, with its biggest markets in Germany, France and the UK. The start-up plans to be doing comparable business in the US by August 2019.