Italy tests electric flight taxi between Rome and airport

According to Vietnam.vn, Italy is encouraging the development of electric flying taxi services. In concrete terms, this concerns a collaboration between the Italian airline ITA Airways, part of the Lufthansa Group, and the American company Archer Aviation. <cite index="5-3">ITA Airways is the first European airline to join Archer's network of partners</cite>. This is a device called Midnight, an electric vehicle that can <cite index="3-4">take off and land vertically, just like a helicopter, and carry up to four passengers plus a pilot</cite>. A journey between Fiumicino Airport and central Rome should take <cite index="2-2">under ten minutes, compared to around thirty minutes by train or forty minutes by car</cite>.

For passenger transport in the Rijnmond region, ground transport remains the practical solution for the time being: there are no plans for flying taxis in Rotterdam, Vlaardingen or Schiedam. The report shows that the sector worldwide is looking for faster, electric connections between airports and city centers. VindTaxi is already following that line on the road, with a fully electric Nissan Ariya for journeys to and from Rotterdam The Hague Airport and Schiphol, among others.