Startup Volocopter hopes to make Fiumicino Airport a leading site for the rotor-blade, battery-powered two-seater air taxi it is developing.
see photosThe starting cost of a ride will be around 150 euros ($175)
Passengers flying into Rome from 2024 onwards will also be able to take their taxi ride to the city center by air if a project between the company that operates its main airport and the German startup kicks off on schedule.
Startup Volocopter hopes to make Fiumicino Airport a leading site for the rotor-blade, battery-powered two-seater air taxi it is developing.
Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) CEO Marco Troncon said travel in a craft, which takes off and descends vertically, takes about 15 minutes, compared to 45 minutes or more by car.
He said the initial cost of a ride would be around 150 euros ($175), with the price likely to drop as the service goes mainstream.
Volocopter hopes to obtain a commercial air license from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) within three years
“The connection will be very fast,” he told Reuters in Fiumicino, where Volocopter was demonstrating a prototype. “It will be a silent journey and … the emissions level will be zero.”
Volocopter, founded in 2011, hopes to obtain a commercial air license from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) within three years and then resume operations, its chief commercial officer Christian Bauer said.
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Rome is seen as the third most suitable European city after Paris – where Volocopter said in June that it expected a service in operation in time for the Olympic Games – and Berlin for the development of air taxis, a EASA study revealed.
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