Passengers arriving in Rome from 2024 forward would be prepared to acquire an air taxi into the downtown area if a venture between both the firm running the city’s major airfield and a German entrepreneur goes forward as planned. Volocopter aims to implement Fiumicino Airport as a test location for its propeller, battery-powered two-seater air taxis.
According to Marco Troncone, CEO of Aeroporti di Roma (AdR), the voyage in one of the aircraft, that takes off now and descends vertically, would take roughly 15 minutes, compared to 45 minutes or over by an automobile. According to him, the upfront cost of a journey would be approximately 150 euros ($175), with the price expected to decrease as the service becomes more popular. “The link will be quite quick,” he said to Reuters at Fiumicino, when Volocopter was displaying a model. “It would be a completely quiet voyage with zero emissions.”
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Volocopter, which was created in 2011, intends to obtain a commercial flying permit from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in three years and then begin operations, according to Christian Bauer, the company’s Chief Commercial Officer. Aeroporti di Roma has been named a UNWTO Leader in Responsible Travel and has already been named ACI Europe’s Best Airport for the third year in a row. The firm is a pioneer in ecological airport operations, intending to be NetZero by 2030.
According to an EASA research, Rome is the third most ideal European city for the growth of air taxi companies, trailing only Paris and Berlin. Volocopter has previously announced ambitions to launch a Paris service in preparation for the 2024 Olympics.
According to the German pioneer, urban environmental transportation, a new service that transports passengers and goods using battery-powered and thus emission-free planes, would be part of the equation for excessively crowded city centres throughout the globe.
