Start-up Eddy Travels has launched a new artificial intelligence group planning digital assistant as part of a partnership with flight search specialist Kiwi.com. Tequila API powers the Eddy Travels AI assistant flight search which was launched in 2018 and has four million users. Eddy Travels, the co-located Lithuanian and Canadian firm, said the new group chat planning service will help families and friends planning to reconnect after months in lockdown. Edmundas Balčikonis, co-founder and chief executive of Eddy Travels, said: "The new chat app removes the burden for one person to be responsible for planning everything and makes it a fun shared activity, even if it's done remotely for now." Oliver Dlouhý, co-founder and chief executive of Kiwi.com, added: "Edmundas and his team did an amazing job building the first group travel booking app that actually works and is really fun to use. "We are proud to be providers of flight and ground transportation inventory, including Virtual Interlining.

Eddy Travels was accepted into the Intelak startup incubator program led by the Emirates Group, GE, and Dubai Tourism! We will get a chance to work closely with program partners to develop a pilot travel project for Dubai. With Eddy Travels we will promote Dubai to younger audiences in Europe and elsewhere. Intelak provides AED 50,000 in funding and expert mentorship during the two-month incubation program. Eddy Travels was selected as one of the four startups from more than 200 applicants!