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Flight Club v Swingers

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Flight Club leads on 4 of the five measures that matter most: turnover, pre-tax profit, profit margin, growth and net assets. Flight Club is the biggest by turnover at £91m, against £8m at Swingers. Both lost money; Flight Club lost the least, £5.30 of every £100 it took.

The year ends are close enough to compare like for like. Flight Club files group accounts that include subsidiaries; Swingers files for a single company, which flatters the group on size.

Accounts compared: Flight Club to Dec 2025 · Swingers to Dec 2025

The Numbers

#CompanyTurnoverChangePre-tax profitMarginEmployeesPay per headTurnover per headNet assetsBank and cashAccounts toBasis
1 Flight ClubFlight Club Darts Limited £91m +13.6% -£5m -5.3% 1,295 n/d £71,000 £9m £10m Dec 2025 Group
2 SwingersSwingers 2 Limited £8m +3.3% -£3m -40.8% 111 £33,000 £73,000 -£8m £89k Dec 2025 Single company

Ranked by turnover. Click any column to sort. The leader on each measure is highlighted. Movements are against each company's own prior year. Pre-tax profit is filed except where marked (est.).

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The Takeaway

  1. Flight Club loses the least. Of every £100 it takes, it loses £5.30, against a loss of £40.85 at Swingers.
  2. Flight Club is the largest on the top line, £91m of turnover, 11.3x Swingers's £8m.
  3. Flight Club is growing fastest, turnover +13.6% on its own prior year.
  4. Flight Club is the biggest employer with 1,295 people; Swingers pays the most per head, an average staff cost of about £33,000.
  5. Flight Club has the largest balance sheet, net assets of £9m.

Who keeps the most of every £100 of sales?

Every company here made a loss. Flight Club lost the least, £5.30 of every £100 of turnover. Swingers does worst, losing £40.85.

Financing bites hardest at Flight Club: £6.97 of every £100 goes on interest.

Every profit figure here is the one the company filed.

The chart splits each company's turnover into £100: what goes on people, on interest and on everything else, and what is left as profit.

Out of every £100 of turnover

£100£0 Financing: £6.97 of every £100£6.97Other costs: £98.34 of every £100Other costs£98.34Loss (the costs beyond £100): £5.30 of every £100Loss £5.30Flight ClubYear to Dec 2025£91m turnoverPayroll: £44.98 of every £100Payroll£44.98Financing: £0.28 of every £100Other costs: £95.58 of every £100Other costs£95.58Loss (the costs beyond £100): £40.85 of every £100Loss £40.85SwingersYear to Dec 2025£8m turnover
Payroll (staff costs)Financing (interest paid)Other running costsPre-tax profitLoss: the costs beyond £100

Each column is £100 of that company's own turnover, so companies of any size compare on one scale; the figures are pounds out of each £100, not millions. Companies run from the best margin to the worst. Payroll is staff costs, financing is interest paid, other running costs are everything else, and profit is pre-tax profit, filed or estimated as marked in the table. A loss is not an extra cost: it is the part of the costs that runs past the £100 line, marked with a red bracket. Hover over any segment for its figure.

Who is the biggest, and does the comparison hold?

By turnover the order is Flight Club (£91m), Swingers (£8m).

By headcount, Flight Club leads with 1,295 employees.

The accounting periods all end in the same month. The bases differ: group accounts include the businesses a company owns, single-company accounts do not.

Flight Club£91mSwingers£8m

Turnover on the latest filing

Who is growing fastest?

Flight Club grew fastest, turnover +13.6% on its own prior year, ahead of Swingers (+3.3%).

Flight Club+13.6%Swingers+3.3%

Turnover change on each company's own prior year

Who employs the most, who pays the most, and who brings in the most per head?

Flight Club employs the most, 1,295 people, against 111 at Swingers.

Swingers has the highest average staff cost, about £33,000 a head.

Swingers brings in the most turnover per employee, about £73,000, against £71,000 at Flight Club. It says as much about the business model as the workforce: a marketplace or a wholesaler needs far fewer people per pound than a restaurant or a gym.

What does the full ledger show?

MeasureFlight ClubSwingers
Registered nameFLIGHT CLUB DARTS LIMITEDSWINGERS 2 LIMITED
Company number0882498710828526
Incorporated20132017
Accounts filed5 August 202610 September 2026
Turnover, prior year£80m£8m
Pre-tax profit, prior year-£9m-£1.8m
Staff costsn/d£4m
Payroll share of turnovern/d45.0%
Employees, prior year1,002114
Dividends paidn/dn/d
Charges outstanding150

A figure the filing does not disclose is shown as n/d; a zero in a filing is treated as not disclosed. Rounding: below £0.1m in thousands, £0.1m to £2m to one decimal place, above that to the nearest million.

Flight Club v Swingers: common questions

Who is the biggest of Flight Club or Swingers?

Flight Club, with turnover of £91m in the year to December 2025.

Which makes the most profit?

Swingers: the smallest loss, -£3m pre-tax in the year to December 2025.

Which employs the most people?

Flight Club, with 1,295 employees in its latest accounts.

Flight Club or Swingers: which is bigger?

Flight Club, with turnover of £91m against £8m at Swingers on their latest filings. On margin, Flight Club keeps more of each £100 as pre-tax profit. The full head to head is in the VS Series. Read the VS page →

Where do these figures come from?

Each company's latest accounts filed at Companies House. Each links to its full Spark Intel profile, which names the filing it comes from.