VINI expands regional air connectivity in Europe by adding flights from Mannheim and Bern

VINI is fur­ther expand­ing its region­al air mobil­i­ty offer­ing in Europe and will strength­en its activ­i­ties in 2026 from the loca­tions of Mannheim in Ger­many and Bern, Switzer­land’s cap­i­tal city.

The com­pa­ny, which was for­mer­ly fly­vbird, is a AI-pow­ered region­al air­line which serves under­served and small­er air­ports locat­ed across Europe. It uses a demand-dri­ven mod­el, it offers on demand, sin­gle-seat book­ings.

With the new ser­vices from Mannheim to Berlin and the test phase from Bern to Munich, VINI and its air­port and air­line part­ners, is send­ing a clear sig­nal for a new form of region­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty: more direct, more effi­cient and clos­er to the actu­al mobil­i­ty needs of busi­ness­es, regions, and trav­ellers.

At the core is a mod­el that com­bines region­al air ser­vices with a demand-dri­ven approach. The aim is to con­nect regions that today are often only acces­si­ble through time-con­sum­ing trans­fers via major hubs or long over­land jour­neys. To achieve this, VINI works with small, effi­cient air­craft and cer­ti­fied oper­at­ing part­ners.

As part of a press release which was sent today (Mon­day), Tomis­lav Lang, Founder and CEO at VINI, said: “Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful test phase, the Mannheim-Berlin route will be oper­at­ed sev­er­al times per week dur­ing select­ed months. At the same time, a pilot project is being launched on the Bern-Munich route, designed to serve as the basis for the fur­ther devel­op­ment of data-dri­ven, flex­i­ble region­al air con­nec­tions.

“Both ini­tia­tives fol­low the same objec­tive: to bet­ter con­nect under­served regions while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly gen­er­at­ing real mar­ket data for the future expan­sion of region­al air mobil­i­ty.”

VINI sees this devel­op­ment not only as the oper­a­tional expan­sion of indi­vid­ual routes, but as part of a broad­er con­cept to rethink region­al avi­a­tion.

The plat­form com­bines dig­i­tal demand analy­sis, flex­i­ble net­work plan­ning, and coop­er­a­tion with cer­ti­fied avi­a­tion part­ners. In the long term, the mod­el is also designed to accom­mo­date the future use of hybrid and elec­tric air­craft. The required mar­ket and oper­a­tional foun­da­tions for this are already being pre­pared today.

Lang added: “Mannheim and Bern rep­re­sent two loca­tions that clear­ly demon­strate the poten­tial of region­al air­ports: short dis­tances, high effi­cien­cy, and strong links to eco­nom­i­cal­ly impor­tant regions.

“This is pre­cise­ly where VINI comes in, with the ambi­tion to con­nect regions more effec­tive­ly and cre­ate new mobil­i­ty options where tra­di­tion­al trans­port solu­tions often reach their lim­its.”

Flights can be booked via www.flyvini.com as well as through con­nect­ed reser­va­tion sys­tems under the air­line code Q4.