Paris | October 24, 2019–Since October 2019, SKYdeals is available for all passengers onboard La Compagnie’s new Airbus A321neo equipped with high-speed Internet 4G+. SKYdeals invites passengers on a journey with brands and shoppertainment experience, providing exclusive and dynamic offers throughout the flight.

SKYdeals provides brand corners with private sales on products and services at destination, dedicated to this business class airline on its route Paris-New York.

La Compagnie, the first French airline to fly with the new Airbus A321neo, now offers onboard its two new aircrafts an unlimited connection to high-speed Internet (4G +).

Following this major development, La Compagnie decided to partner up with the French startup SKYdeals in order to provide a unique digital shopping experience to connected passengers. On the route Paris-Orly / New York Newark, all customers have now access to the e-commerce platform and benefit from exclusive deals available during their flight.

Since its launch in 2014, La Compagnie has been targeting customers who want to enjoy a Business Class service at the best price on the market. Offering Smart Deals and exclusive offers is also a fundamental pillar for SKYdeals in the development of its catalogue of brands and services.

“Offering the SKYdeals solution to our customers onboard our Airbus 321NEO was obvious for us. The smart shopping is part of La Compagnie’s DNA since its launch, almost 5 years ago. This is also SKYdeals’ promise to provide our customers with exclusive and private sales on products and services at destination during their flight. We are, with SKYdeals, creating the next generation of “shopping in the air” through exceptional events, group purchases, flash sales and many other initiatives.” explains Jean Charles Périno, Sales and Marketing Director and co-founder of La Compagnie.

“We are delighted to deploy the first e-commerce platform for travelers on the Paris-New York line with La Compagnie. Thanks to this partnership, we have a great opportunity to reach premium passengers, sensitive to exclusivity at the best price.
The entire SKYdeals team would like to thank La Compagnie for their trust and support. This new deployment is part of SKYdeals’ objective to reach, within 5 years, 4% of global air traffic, which counts for more than 200 million passengers per year” says Julien Sivan, CEO and co-founder of SKYdeals.

Paris, France | March 18, 2019– The French startup SKYdeals reinvents travel retail thanks to its solution of Inflight Shoppertainment. SKYdeals strengthens its ties with the group by partnering with Air France to launch a pilot of its technology on several lines of the medium and long-haul networks of the airline.

SKYdeals is now on AIR

Since January 2019, the e-commerce platform SKYdeals is available on long, medium and short-haul flights equipped with an Internet connection to travelers from all countries: North America, South America, Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Asia and Oceania.

Julien Sivan, CEO of SKYdeals, says: “We are pleased that Air France is giving SKYdeals the opportunity to deploy our new inflight shoppertainment services. From now on, we can experience a large number of preferred offers to passengers. It will be interesting to measure the evolution of buying behaviors on board, which is a world premiere. We would like to thank Air France for their trust and support. With the arrival of Wi-Fi on the majority of the fleets worldwide, we hope to be able to reach an audience of more than 200 million passengers a year within five years.”

A major innovation for inflight entertainment 

Freely accessible from any device, SKYdeals is available to passengers from Air France Connect, the connectivity portal of Air France.

Considered as the future of travel retail, SKYdeals relies on two major innovations.

The first marketplace dedicated to travelers currently flying which allows brands to promote preferred offers to passengers available during the time of their flight.

The unique targeting capacity of SKYdeals allows to offer a unique shopping experience on board. SKYdeals has the ability to target offers based on the travelers’ profiles and destination. Premium brands or confidential brands, already present or not duty free, will have the opportunity to offer passengers a series of exclusive offers on the platform, up to 50% off. 

Inflight Shoppertainment features, consisting of a set of dynamic commercial offers, allow passengers to be entertain while enjoying advantageous offers:

• Flyover offers: preferred offers triggered according to the area and the country overflown and are only available during the flyover time.
• Group Buying offers: passengers on the same flight may grouped together to obtain more advantageous offers.
• Flash sales:  these offers are valid for 15 minutes at specific times during the flight.
• Flying Auctions: Real auctions lasting the time of the flight.

With these features available, each connection to SKYdeals promises to be both entertaining and advantageous.

The ambition of this first deployment is a live trial of all these new offers with travelers from all nationalities and on a large number of routes.