Supply: Lilium
Revolutionizing Regional Air Mobility: Zero-Emission Lilium Jets to Join Key Locations Throughout the French Riviera, Together with Monaco, Good, Cannes, and Marseille
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian J. McNabb
Lilium, the German eVTOL (digital Vertical Takeoff and Touchdown) jet developer, just lately introduced a partnership with Italian vertiport community operator UrbanV and Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur (ACA), supervisor of France’s second largest airport, Good – Côte d’Azur, alongside Cannes Mandelieu airport and Golfe de Saint-Tropez airport, to carry eVTOL Lilium jet flights to the south of France starting in 2026. This new community will span the French Riviera with key locations all through Southern France together with Monaco, Good, Cannes, Golfe de Saint-Tropez, Aix-en-Provence, and Marseille.
This deal will leverage UrbanV’s current infrastructure of vertiports within the area, together with at Good- Côte d’Azur, Cannes Mandelieu, and Golfe de Saint-Tropez, with further locations like Sophia Antipolis, Aix-en-Provence, and Marseille to be serviced by future companions.
Providing a brand new transportation mode to the area, which already welcomes over 11 million guests a 12 months, represents an thrilling alternative for Lilium, who say their zero-emission, low-noise possibility gives a compelling different to a helicopter. UrbanV’s vertiports, designed and operated sustainably, add to the Lilium jet’s environmental benefit.
Franck Goldnadel, Chairman of the Board, Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur, stated, “This collaboration with Lilium along with our subsidiary UrbanV marks an vital step within the transformation and decarbonization of regional air mobility. Our territory affords a singular alternative to fly over the ocean to straight join the primary financial, cultural or vacationer locations. A complementary different to the helicopter, the eVTOL has its place within the air transport supplied from Good Côte d’Azur, laboratory of the airport of tomorrow, second platform in France and gateway to and exit from a landlocked territory.”
Carlo Tursi, CEO at UrbanV, commented, “At UrbanV, we purpose to enhance folks’s lives by enabling a quick, environment friendly, secure, and clear different to current transport options for folks and items over quick distances, by air. We have now the ambition to develop into a significant world operator of vertiport networks and we might be world pioneers in establishing a few of the first AAM routes worldwide. We’re excited to accomplice with Lilium and Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur, two world leaders of their respective fields, and we sit up for exploring along with them the good potential of introducing superior air mobility within the French Riviera.”
Sebastien Borel, CCO of Lilium, added, “As a very European firm based mostly in Munich, Germany, with flight testing in Spain and with nascent roots in France, Lilium is extraordinarily proud to have the ability to help within the creation of the primary regional eVTOL community within the South of France and the primary commercially viable community within the EU. We see an unlimited potential on this area and can’t wait to see our Lilium Jet fly there quickly.”
In different Lilium information in Europe, UK-based jet operator, eVolare, has signed a purchase order settlement for 4 Lilium Jets, with a further reservation of 12 jets. eVolare plans to function Lilium Jets within the London space, connecting London with outer cities and the coastal areas of England.
Lilium has additionally introduced an expanded partnership with Luxaviation Group, one of many largest enterprise plane and helicopter operators worldwide, to create electrified floor infrastructure for the Lilium Jets. Beginning in key European markets comparable to France, in addition they have websites deliberate for the Center East.
Extra data on the Lilium jet and the brand new community in France is out there right here.
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, an expert drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone business and the regulatory atmosphere for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone area and is a global speaker and acknowledged determine within the business. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand spanking new applied sciences.
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