AIR UNIQON and flyvbird — VINI join forces to strengthen regional air transport in Germany

VINI (fly­vbird) has launched a new part­ner­ship with Germany’s newest region­al air­line, AIR UNIQON, with cus­tomers now able to book flights from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, Dus­sel­dorf and Ham­burg via VINI’s plat­form.

VINI oper­ates an AI-pow­ered plat­form for region­al air mobil­i­ty and is already active with its own con­nec­tions in Ger­many, Switzer­land, Croa­t­ia, and Slove­nia. The com­pa­ny serves routes such as Mannheim to Berlin, Bern to Munich, and sev­er­al Adri­at­ic con­nec­tions from Low­er Bavaria.

The com­pa­ny’s pro­pri­etary AI analy­ses demand pat­terns in real time, iden­ti­fies prof­itable new routes, and dynam­i­cal­ly opti­mizes flight sched­ules. This tech­nol­o­gy is now also avail­able to AIR UNIQON.

Since its first flight on Jan­u­ary 12th of this year, AIR UNIQON has con­nect­ed the Lake Con­stance region with Berlin, Dus­sel­dorf, and Ham­burg. With 20 week­ly flights oper­at­ed by Avan­ti Air using the proven Dash 8‑Q400 (78 seats), the com­pa­ny says it has closed a gap left behind after the with­draw­al of Lufthansa, Ger­ma­nia, and Sun Air.

Fabi­an Rosen­berg, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, AIR UNIQON GmbH, said: “AIR UNIQON has proven in a very short time that region­al air con­nec­tions work in Ger­many. With VINI as a tech­nol­o­gy part­ner, we gain access to an AI plat­form that helps us fur­ther devel­op our net­work plan­ning in a data-dri­ven way and iden­ti­fy new routes in a tar­get­ed man­ner. At the same time, we reach anoth­er excit­ing tar­get group via the VINI plat­form. This is a win for us, for our pas­sen­gers, and for the regions we con­nect.”

How it works

Pas­sen­gers can now book AIR UNIQON flights through two chan­nels:

• Direct­ly with AIR UNIQON (airuniqon.com)
• Through all com­mon book­ing plat­forms via GDS, Flexflight/W2
• Or through the VINI plat­form (www.flyvini.com)

In addi­tion, VINI’s AI sys­tem ana­lyzes demand for poten­tial new routes. If the data shows that a new con­nec­tion from Friedrichshafen is eco­nom­i­cal­ly viable, this can be inte­grat­ed into AIR UNIQON’s net­work plan­ning.

What the part­ner­ship means for both sides

For AIR UNIQON:

• Access to VINI’s AI-based demand analy­sis, mak­ing it pos­si­ble to fur­ther sup­port AIR UNIQON’s net­work plan­ning
• An addi­tion­al sales chan­nel: AIR UNIQON flights are vis­i­ble via www.flyvini.com and with­in the VINI net­work
• Mar­ket­ing sup­port: VINI uses its com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels to strength­en addi­tion­al dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing activ­i­ties and pas­sen­ger acqui­si­tion for joint­ly mar­ket­ed routes

For VINI:

• Expan­sion of the plat­form net­work through proven routes from Friedrichshafen
• Strength­en­ing of its posi­tion as a lead­ing plat­form for region­al air traf­fic in Cen­tral Europe

Tomis­lav Lang, Founder & CEO, VINI (fly­vbird), said: “AIR UNIQON is the best proof that region­al fly­ing has a future. What Fabi­an and his team have built in Friedrichshafen is exact­ly what we want to scale with VINI. Our AI finds the demand, AIR UNIQON gets the flights into the air. That is how plat­form avi­a­tion works: every­one does what they do best. And togeth­er we con­nect the uncon­nect­ed.”

A strong sig­nal for region­al air trans­port

Ger­many has hun­dreds of region­al air­ports and air­fields that have been los­ing impor­tance for years. At the same time, many eco­nom­i­cal­ly strong regions remain poor­ly con­nect­ed.

AIR UNIQON has proven in Friedrichshafen that the need for direct region­al con­nec­tions is real for Ger­many as a busi­ness loca­tion. VINI has proven with its AI-pow­ered plat­form tech­nol­o­gy that this demand can be sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly unlocked. The part­ner­ship brings these two insights togeth­er in a mod­el that can be trans­ferred to addi­tion­al loca­tions and routes.

Book­ing

AIR UNIQON flights from Friedrichshafen can be booked via:

• Direct­ly with AIR UNIQON: airuniqon.com (GDS code W2)
• VINI plat­form: www.flyvini.com (GDS code Q4)
• All com­mon GDS sys­tems and trav­el agen­cies