The UK Air Mobility Consortium has delivered a concept of operations (Conops) for integrating eVTOL aircraft into existing airspace to the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The study was built around case studies exploring how urban air mobility (UAM) services could work to carry passengers across a network of vertiports between Heathrow Airport on the west side of the British capital and London City Airport on the east side, close to the main financial district.
The consortium included eVTOL aircraft developers Eve, Vertical Aerospace and Volocopter, as well as air traffic management groups NATS and Atech, ground infrastructure specialist and drone operator Skyports, and both of the London airports. Since January 2021, the project has been conducted through a partnership with the CAA’s Innovation Hub through its Regulatory Sandbox team as part of its Future Air Mobility Challenge.
