Air taxis and personal transports

Karem Aircraft, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicle developer, has announced a new spin-off venture dedicated to bringing an all-electric air taxi vehicle, Butterfly, to market. The product is being created to service its […]

Three of Uber Elevate Network’s six partners are using analytics to map out the cost of flying to work or sharing an air taxi over the total life cycle costs of aircraft, according to a […]

Boeing and Kitty Hawk Corporation have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. “Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of […]

Airbus, Groupe ADP and the RATP Group, along with the Paris Ile-de-France region and the French civil aviation authority (DGAC), have announced the launch of a feasibility study to demonstrate an urban system of vertical […]

Uber has announced that Jaunt Air Mobility – a specialised developer of reduced rotor operating speed (ROSA) aircraft – will partner Uber to develop an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi, “Jaunt Air […]

At the 2019 Uber Elevate Summit the company exhibited its helicopter-like interior designs for its air taxis, designed by partner Safran Cabin. The interiors feature four passenger seats, with space for luggage behind the rear […]

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes and Beth Stevenson On 10 June a helicopter crashed in flames onto the roof of an office building on Seventh Avenue in New York, killing the pilot Tim McCormack. It was another salient reminder, […]

EmbraerX has today unveiled a new electric flying vehicle concept during Uber Elevate Summit 2019 in Washington, D.C. The aircraft concept, with electric vertical take-off and landing capability, known as eVTOL, is part of the […]

Lilium, the Munich-based startup developing on-demand air taxi services, has today announced it has selected London to be the base for its software team. “Hundreds of high-end software engineering roles will be created in the […]

NFT, a company headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an R&D centre in Israel, has unveiled the ASKA (“flying bird” in Japanese) “and it’s the first viable eVTOL vehicle that can both drive on the […]