Our story
Flying should still feel like going somewhere.
Vandrer did not begin with an aircraft order or a route map. It began with a lifelong fascination with flight — and one simple question: when did flying become something people endure instead of something they look forward to?
- Where it starts
- Oslo
- Places under study
- 92
- Stage
- Prelaunch
Shape the map Prelaunch · Oslo · No flights on sale
Illustrative imagery. Not a photograph of a Vandrer flight.
01 From the founder
A lifelong connection to aviation
Mark John PuglisiFounder and President
Vandrer's founder, Mark John Puglisi, has been fascinated by aviation since childhood. He has worked in aviation, flown small aircraft and spent years following airlines, aviation markets and the travellers who experience them. That combination of direct experience and lasting curiosity created a clear conviction: aviation can be better than the fragmented, impersonal experience it has gradually become.
In Norway, Mark saw room for a different kind of airline — one capable of connecting people and places while bringing the excitement of travel back into the journey. That became the beginning of Vandrer.
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The journey begins before departure
Flying is not only transportation. It is the moment a journey becomes real.
It is sitting by the window and wondering whether the landscape below already belongs to the place you are travelling to. It is imagining what waits at the other end. It is meeting someone beside you who may be travelling for an entirely different reason, yet sharing the same journey for a few hours.
A good cabin should make space for that feeling. Comfort matters. Food matters. Technology matters. But none of them is the purpose of flying. They should support the experience — not replace it. Vandrer is being designed around anticipation, curiosity, movement and discovery.
The world as Vandrer draws it from Oslo — an illustration of interest, never a schedule.
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One journey. One responsibility.
Modern aviation often divides one journey between airlines, airports, booking systems, contractors, handlers and customer-service departments. The passenger experiences none of those divisions. They experience one journey.
When something changes, they should not have to investigate which company is responsible, repeat their story to several departments or fight their way through an organisation chart. Vandrer is being designed to take responsibility for the journey as a whole.
The ambition is simple: when disruption happens, the system should already be working on what comes next — so the traveller can remain a traveller instead of becoming their own operations manager.
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An airline people belong to
Vandrer should not treat people as disconnected parts of a transaction.
- A passenger is more than a seat number.
- A crew member is more than a roster position.
- A ground handler is more than an external supplier.
- A destination is more than a point on a map.
- A partner is more than a logo.
Everyone contributes to the same journey. Vandrer is being built around the idea that passengers, employees, communities and partners should understand how they contribute — and should have meaningful ways to participate.
That begins before the first flight. People can share where they want Vandrer to explore, register interest in future departure cities and follow the project as its plans develop. This is not market research hidden behind a brand campaign. It is an invitation to help shape something from the beginning.
From the field
The kind of travel this began with
Long distances, cold mornings, the hours between one place and the next. Vandrer is being built by someone who travels, for people who travel.
Illustrative imagery. Not a photograph of a Vandrer flight.
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Technology that keeps the human experience together
Behind Vandrer, we are developing Asterisk: the internal system intended to connect the different parts of the future airline. Its role is not to place more technology between people. Its role is to prevent people from becoming lost between departments, systems and responsibilities.
Over time, Asterisk is intended to create one continuous view of the journey — connecting planning, operations, crew, customer care, disruption management and the passenger experience. The technology should work quietly in the background so that humanity, confidence and discovery can remain in the foreground.
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Why Vandrer?
The name represents movement without losing meaning. A traveller moves between places. A wanderer remains curious about what lies between them.
Vandrer is not being created simply to transport people more efficiently. It is being created to help people experience the pleasure of going somewhere again — to look outward, feel involved and belong to the journey they are making.
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Where we are today
Vandrer is currently a pre-launch airline and travel project. We are developing the concept, testing the systems, studying potential markets and listening to the people and communities who may become part of it.
No flights, tickets, schedules, aircraft or final routes are being offered or confirmed at this stage. What exists today is the beginning: the purpose, the work and an open invitation to follow the journey.
We want to make people feel part of aviation again. Not simply carried by it.
Vandrer takes responsibility for the journey — so people can feel the wonder of travelling again.
Northern light and open water. Oslo is where the thinking starts, not where it ends.
Help shape where we explore
Tell us which journeys matter to you and where you would like Vandrer to go.