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It's hard to imagine a destination as keen on innovation as South Korea remaining aloof from such a field of possibilities. Urban air mobility (UAM) is mobilising the energies - and investment - of airlines and airports around the world. And Korean Air is taking its turn in...

Once the Olympic promises for Paris 2024 are over, and alongside numerous projects in Europe and the United States, it is finally China that could emerge as a pioneer in the flying taxi sector. This seems to be borne out by the new approval granted to the - Chinese, of course - manufacturer EHang. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAAC) has...

What if the Volocopter flying taxi project were to take off again? The German manufacturer ended 2024 in bankruptcy, after the false start of Paris 2024. It is now starting 2025 with new ambitions. These are underpinned by the partnership forged on 18 February with France's Jet Systems. An objective assumed by...

Californian company Archer Aviation has just appointed Talib Alhinai as its director for the United Arab Emirates. This appointment confirms the imminent launch of electric air taxis in the Emirates. In fact, Archer Aviation estimates that these could start operating at the end of 2025. Talib Alhinai's presence at this...

Speaking to France Info on 8 August 2024, Augustin de Romanet, CEO of the ADP Group, confirmed what many observers thought: the electric flying taxis (VTOLs) that are supposed to be taking to the skies over Paris for the Olympic Games are still grounded for the time being. "We're not abandoning this project. It's a...

Drone or flying taxi, electric vehicle with vertical take-off and landing - there's no shortage of terms to describe eVTOL, the urban transport of the future. Over the next decade, this new mode of urban mobility is set to revolutionise short journeys in often saturated metropolises. American, European and Chinese companies are all lining up....

Airlines do not have a monopoly on flying taxi prototypes. After all, this hybrid mobility format is also of interest to car manufacturers, as demonstrated by Stellantis' investment in Archer just over a year ago. And while the Paris Air Show regularly serves as a showcase for these...

What are the trends and challenges facing the airline industry in 2024, particularly for business travellers? Paul Chiambaretto - The macro-economic trends, as confirmed by the IATA figures, are fairly optimistic in terms of global air traffic demand. This will enable us to exceed 2019 levels. With...

Airlines are positioning themselves more and more clearly on the rise of eVTOL, the electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The latest example is Lufthansa. As announced in early December, the German group will be working with Lilium. This German start-up, based in Munich, was launched in 2015. And its partnership...

It was expected, but now it's confirmed: VoloCity flying taxis will be taking to the skies over Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games. A commercial launch for the general public that will also be a world first. Volocopter, the German group behind the VoloCity project, made the announcement at the Paris Air Show in the company of its partners,...

Just a few days ago, the Vivatech trade fair was a showcase for innovation in aeronautics, with the presentation of a new "green" hypersonic aircraft from the Swiss start-up Destinus, which by 2030 could be carrying around thirty passengers on 4-hour Paris-Sydney flights, and the AirScooter, a futuristic Vespa with its own landing system...

In September 2022, United officially entered the race for flying taxis by announcing the acquisition of some 400 from an Embraer subsidiary, Eve Air Mobility. The company then set the arrival of the first eVTOLs for 2026. On 23 March this year, United played another trump card. This time, with Archer...

Although the finishing line is still relatively unclear, the race for flying taxis is attracting more and more participants every week. And a number of heavyweights are now in the starting blocks. One example is the giant Stellantis (Peugeot, Citroën, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Opel, Chrysler...) which, in the run-up to CES Las Vegas, has made a big splash...

Are electric flying taxis the key to tomorrow's mobility? United Airlines seems to believe so, having just invested no less than 15 million dollars in electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles, or eVTOLs. An agreement has just been signed with the manufacturer Eve Air Mobility, Embraer's Brazilian subsidiary...

While the advent of flying taxis has been heralded for some years now, airports are getting organised to be ready for take-off. The Urban Blue project was unveiled a year ago by several hubs, including Nice airport. And it is with the same objective in mind that Sao Paulo airport is...

"Urban Blue" is the name of the new company unveiled on 26 October by four airports, including a leading French hub. Nice airport has joined forces with its counterparts in Rome, Venice and Bologna to accelerate the development of vertiports, from their design to their...

From one edition to the next, this is undoubtedly one of the great showcases of the VivaTech trade fair, this flurry of futuristic inventions heralding the imminent arrival of flying taxis in the skies over major cities, as well as autonomous cars and soon even... houses in the clouds. Start-up Hover City, for example, has invented 'mobile' real estate. And all at the whim of...

Two years after it was announced with great fanfare at the 2019 Paris Air Show, the flying taxi could take its first steps in the skies over Paris in June 2021. This is the plan set out in the roadmap unveiled on 18 January by the project's instigators, who include the Paris Air Show, the Paris Air Show and the...

Announced at the 2019 Paris Air Show, the project for flying taxis in Paris is beginning to take shape with the forthcoming introduction of a full-scale test area at the Pontoise - Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield. The three parties involved in this initiative - the Île-de-France Region, the ADP Group and RATP - intend to...

When will biometrics become the norm in air travel? Could this mean the digitisation of passports? Barbara Dalibard - The number of biometric devices in airports has almost doubled in the space of a year. Today, this technology is present in 44 % of platforms. The technology is now mature. The question now concerns...