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Vertiport Testbed Opens for Paris Air Mobility Development Project
Skyports has installed a vertiport at the Paris-area Pointoise-Cormeilles Airport to support the Re.Invent Air Mobility project. That project intends to launch eVTOL air services during the 2024 Olympic Games, which will be hosted by the French capital.
Volocopter's VoloCity eVTOL aircraft next to the vertiport facility at Pontoise-Cormeilles Airport near Paris.
Volocopter's VoloCity eVTOL aircraft next to the new vertiport testbed facility at Pontoise-Cormeilles Airport near Paris.

Operational trials for planned eVTOL air taxi services in the Paris area are being expanded with the opening on November 10 of a vertiport at Pointoise-Cormeilles Airport. According to French airports company Groupe ADP and its partners—the ground infrastructure specialist Skyports and eVTOL aircraft developer Volocopter—the facility is the first fully integrated vertiport terminal in Europe.

The vertiport is part of the wider Re.Invent Air Mobility planning exercise that is preparing to launch air taxi services during the Paris Olympic Games in the summer of 2024. A group of around 30 partner organizations, which also include public transportation group RATP and economic development agency Choose Paris Region, say that the facility will test critical technology and passenger processes.