Flying taxis being tested for use at 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris
in recent years.Some 30 aeronautics manufactures throughout Europe have already been enlisted to conduct test flights at the Pontoise airfield in Cormeilles-en-Vexin, Paris, including Volocopter, Airbus, Vertical Aerospace and Ascendance, Lilium and Joby Aviation, with others expected to join the project.Said the CEO of Aéroports de Paris, Augustin de Romanet, in a statement: “Our Pontoise airfield brings together a unique ecosystem around new air mobility and the trial platform we are launching today is unprecedented in Europe.”De Romanet continued, “It will function as a concrete experiment to explore the field of possibilities of a decarbonised and innovative aviation, and to develop the low altitude aviation market (below 300 metres),