Some eVTOL Revolutionaries May Be Moving Closer to the Business Aviation Mainstream
Certain eVTOL aircraft developers have insisted they have no use for a customer base of private aircraft operators, and prefer to operate air taxi services themselves. But that could be changing as the aircraft get closer to service entry.
Some pioneers in the advanced air mobility (AAM) sector almost seem to be taking a Maoist “year zero” approach that consciously dismisses the role of existing forms of private and business aviation as irrelevant distractions that will be swept away by the new wave of eVTOL aircraft and the digital ecosystems that underpin how they are operated.
FutureFlight recently interviewed the founder of one eVTOL aircraft start-up about prospective customers for its five-passenger design. We asked him whether he’d called NetJets. “What’s NetJets?” was the response.
