Save, Venezia e Chioggia collegate grazie al primo vertiporto del Veneto
Il primo vertiporto del Veneto sarà a Chioggia: entro pochi anni la cittadina veneziana, sede di un porto scelto quest’anno da 36 crociere (erano state 13 l’anno scorso) e della prima flotta peschereccia d’Italia, ma che soffre uno storico gap di infrastutture, sarà raggiungibile a bordo di droni. È il primo tassello del piano di […]
Rome Plans Electric Air-Taxi Service Ahead of 2025 Vatican Jubilee
Rome plans to offer travelers the chance to bypass its famously crippling traffic by flying in air taxis directly from the city center. The goal is to have the service up and running in 2024, ahead of a year-long Vatican celebration the following year known as Jubilee. A ride from the central Termini rail station, […]
Flying taxis in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee
The Italian capital, famous for being one of the busiest cities in the world, hosts the first test flight of an eVTOL electric helicopter of the kind that will be operational from 2024, shortly before the Jubilee celebration begins in 2025. Read the full article
Up, up and away
Going for a drive around Rome is more likely to induce rage at other motorists than wonderment at the Colosseum. For those hoping to avoid that, a solution might be imminent. A deal between Rome Fiumicino Airport, infrastructure company Atlantia and electric air-taxi company Volocopter means that air taxis – which can look like smaller, […]
Italy’s First Vertiport Deployed at Fiumicino Airport
Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), Atlantia, UrbanV, and the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), Volocopter, have successfully completed the first crewed eVTOL test flights in Italian airspace. These tests were part of a mobility ecosystem setup at Fiumicino’s Leonardo da Vinci International Airport. This is a key milestone toward the envisioned rollout of advanced air […]
25 minutes from the airport to the city centre: Europe’s first air taxis will soon be taking off here
Hardly anything can be heard when the 18 electric motors start up and the white vehicle lifts itself into the air. Much quieter than a helicopter, the air taxi hovers near Rome’s airport, makes a few laps and after five minutes lands back in the fenced concrete square, directly on a large “V” on the ground. The […]
Future Travel Experience
During #FTEDublin2022’s “Air MobilityX Symposium”, our CEO Carlo Tursi talked to Future Travel Experience about #UrbanV’s plans to drive the air mobility of the future. “Aeroporti di Roma, our main founding shareholder, SAVE S.p.A, Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur and Bologna Airport came together with a shared vision of leveraging their deep expertise in aviation ground infrastructure to champion the new emerging industry of #AdvancedAirMobility,” he […]
Taking off into the future of air travel
Our CEO, Carlo Tursi, wrote an editorial on International Airport Review regarding Italy’s pioneering approach to Advanced Air Mobility. Indeed, thanks to a partnership between Aeroporti di Roma, Atlantia and Volocopter GmbH, supported by ENAC – Ente Nazionale per l’Aviazione Civile, Rome will be one of the first European capitals to activate #AAM routes between #Fiumicino airport and the city centre, by 2024.In this context, UrbanV focuses […]
