Meet before you fly
A little company before boarding.
Wingmate shows you who else is waiting in your terminal or booked on your flight — for a coffee, a conversation, or a connection. Photos and seat numbers stay private until you both choose to reveal.
- Barcelona, Vienna, Heathrow, Gatwick
- 85 destinations
- Six languages
- 18 and over
How it works
From waiting to meeting.
01
Add your trip
Sign in with Google or a four-digit code by email, write a short card, then enter your airport, terminal and flight.
02
Find your people
See who is in your terminal or on your flight and open to the same things. You start with their words, not their photograph.
03
Choose each other
Reveal to someone. If they reveal back, the photos and the seat numbers appear and the chat opens.
The app
Ninety minutes, start to finish.
Eight screens from the running app — no mockups. A real boarding pass, a real terminal feed, a real reveal, and a real conversation with the travellers Wingmate seeds into a test terminal.
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Sign in with Google, or with your email — a four-digit code, no password. Wingmate opens in your browser; add it to your home screen and it behaves like any other app.
Five tabs
One tab for each part of the wait.
Discover people in Nearby, find your bearings in Airport, gather a group in Community, make plans in Chats, and keep your profile and settings in You.
Nearby
Start with who they are.
One traveller at a time. Their “Who am I” card comes first, then talking points, the countries they have visited, favourites and languages.
- Swipe right to like a card, tap the cross to pass.
- Like one particular card, with a suggested icebreaker or your own words.
- Filters — age, destination, what someone is open to — sit behind one icon.
Where it works
Four airports to start from.
Wingmate opens one terminal at a time, so a trip starts at one of four airports today — and goes on to any of 85 destinations across Europe and the long-haul hubs.
BCN
Barcelona
El Prat
VIE
Vienna
Schwechat
LHR
London
Heathrow
LGW
London
Gatwick
Privacy and safety
You choose what happens next.
Photos and seat numbers are shared only after a mutual reveal — not blurred on your phone, simply never sent. You can take a reveal back within the hour, and block or report anyone in the app. Nobody is identity-checked, so meet in a busy public place.
Your terminal check-in deletes itself an hour after boarding. Trip data goes within two hours of landing, and a chat survives only if you both ask to keep it. Your account stays for the next trip, until you delete it from the You tab.
Wingmate Pro
Reach, never privileges.
A free account reveals to three people a trip and joins one terminal group. Pro lifts both — unlimited reveals, up to three groups, and everyone flying to where you land. The rules stay the same for everybody: mutual reveal, hidden seats, everything expiring after the trip.
What Pro costsCommon questions
Before you check in.
Do I need to download an app?
No. Wingmate opens in your phone’s browser. Add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app.
What if nobody is nearby?
Other travellers have to be checked in and match your preferences to appear. A supported airport does not guarantee a crowd — check back closer to your flight if your feed is empty.
Does my profile disappear after landing?
Your trip expires within two hours of landing, but your account and profile stay for your next journey. Chats expire with the trip unless you both choose to keep in touch.
Get started
Make time for a hello.
Create your account, add your trip, and write the card that goes in front of it. A few talking points, someone with something in common, and ninety minutes you were going to spend on your phone anyway.
In English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian or French. Keep an eye on your gate and your boarding time.