FutureFlight On The Radar
Deloitte Study Considers How Advanced Air Mobility Stacks Up as a Mass-transit Contender
The consulting group focuses on how eVTOL air taxi services will compete on cost and price points with ground-based alternatives and also with scheduled airlines.

Deloitte buys into the widespread high expectations for the advanced air mobility (AAM) sector, but—as one might expect from a company grounded in accountancy—wants to crunch numbers with dollar signs attached to assess its potential. In its new study, AAM: Disrupting the Future of Mobility, the consulting group seeking to assess its prospects from a consumer point of view and considers how eVTOL aircraft will be able to compete with existing modes of transportation.

The opening section of the 12-page report breaks down how a 25-mile journey can be cut from 74 minutes in a car to 29 minutes. This includes five-minute first- and last-mile segments at either end of a 10-minute eVTOL flight, with seven minutes allowed for boarding the aircraft and two more minutes to deplane and transfer to the final leg of ground transportation.