Air taxi

• Germany's Lilium has announced a 7-seat version of its gorgeous eVTOL air taxi, as well as plans to have a commercial operation up and running by 2024.
• Many companies around the world are currently developing a variety of air taxis, which will be used to transport passengers in cities.
• Volocopter has already committed to running air taxi routes safely and quietly in Singapore and Paris, and plans to offer further routes across Europe, Asia and the U.S.
• As the first and only electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) company to receive Design Organisation Approval by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, Volocopter expects its first commercial air taxi routes to be opened within the next two years.
• An airport for flying car s will thrust the English city of Coventry into the future later in 2021, with a project aimed at demonstrating how air taxis will work in urban centers.
• Volocopter's air taxi services will offer a unique service that will save people time, promote sustainable alternatives, and bring people together with the excitement of electric flight.
• Joby Aviation is a California-headquartered transportation company developing an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft which it intends to operate as part of a fast, quiet, and convenient air taxi service beginning in 2024.
• Malaysia's AirAsia plans to launch air taxi service in about 18 months.
• United estimates that Archer's aircraft could slash carbon dioxide emissions by 47% per passenger on a trip between Hollywood and Los Angeles International Airport - the route where Archer plans to launch an air taxi service by 2024.
• Volocopter has raised €322 million to date, and says it expects its first commercial air taxi routes to be opened within the next two years.
• Archer plans to begin production of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle in 2023 and enter the air-taxi market in 2024.
• Do not tell that to Archer Aviation, a California start-up that plans to launch a fleet of air taxis as early as 2024.
• Joby Aviation acquired Uber's air taxi arm - known as Uber Elevate - late last year, and said the move to go public coupled with the more than 1,000 test flights it has completed in the past decade will give it a substantial first-mover advantage in the aerial ridesharing industry.
• Archer Aviation, another electric flight company, plans on merging with blank-check company Atlas Crest Investment Corp, and it has said it would launch an air taxi service in Los Angeles by 2024.
• Joby Aviation is a California headquartered transportation company developing an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft which it intends to operate as a fast, quiet, and affordable air taxi service beginning in 2024.
• Los Angeles has long been identified as a likely early-adopter for eVTOL air taxi services and was one of the cities targeted by Uber's Elevate platform to launch initial operations beginning in 2023.
• The consortium, which will operate as a testbed in the south west of England, will assess the feasibility and development of advanced air mobility with the aim of demonstrating air taxi services by as soon as 2023.
• The Air One hub will be the world's first pop up urban airport and charging hub for future electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, which include cargo drones and air taxis, and is set to be launched in Coventry later in 2021.
• The air taxi service will be operated by AirTaxi India which was granted the Scheduled Commuter Airline Permit by the Indian aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation in December last year.
• Figures from Roland Berger estimate there will be 160,000 commercial air taxis, generating revenue of $90bn per year, in the air by 2050.
• Volocopter plans to launch its air taxi services as early as the next two years.
• German urban air mobility company Volocopter will be working closely with The Economic Development Board of Singapore and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore to launch air taxi services in Singapore within the next three years.

Last updated: 11 April 2021