Charter & Fractional
Flyvbird Outlines Plan for On-demand Air Taxi Network
Its network of services to small regional airports will start in Germany
Tecnam's P2012 Traveller aircraft
Tecnam's nine-passenger P2012 Traveller aircraft will be used to launch Flyvbird's air taxi service. (Image: Tecnam)

German app-based, on-demand air taxi start-up Flyvbird is preparing to launch services at the end of 2024 with the first of four Tecnam P2012 Travellers on order. The start-up expects the business to grow exponentially over the coming years with a mixed fleet of up to 500 low-cost and reduced-emissions aircraft envisaged by the end of the next decade to service a growing international network.

Flyvbird has joined forces with Italian airframer Tecnam to develop the operation, dubbed Flyv, which will provide air services with the 1,700-nm range of the Traveller piston-twin, to small rural and secondary airports around Europe. It will use an app booking system and scheduling platform based on what Flyvbird founder Tomislav Lang calls an “innovative algorithmic approach designed to deliver an alternative to traditional transportation models.”