Volocopter offering ticket reservations for first VoloCity eVTOL flights

Ger­man eVTOL devel­op­er Volo­copter is now offer­ing tick­et reser­va­tions for those want­i­ng to be the first pas­sen­gers in its pilot­ed VoloC­i­ty air taxi.

The announce­ment was made at this year’s Green­Tech Fes­ti­val in Berlin and fol­lows the com­pa­ny’s suc­cess­ful demon­stra­tion flights in Stuttgart, Helsin­ki Air­port in Fin­land, and over Singapore’s Mari­na Bay. Tim­ings and loca­tions have yet to be deter­mined, and pre-sale reser­va­tions are lim­it­ed to 1,000 on a first-come-first-served basis.

They cost €300 each and those inter­est­ed can reserve their place by pay­ing €30 — a 10 per cent deposit.

The price will include a 15-minute flight, sched­uled with­in the first 12 months after VoloC­i­ty’s com­mer­cial launch — which could be as ear­ly as 2022. Also includ­ed will be a video of the pas­sen­ger’s flight and a lim­it­ed-edi­tion, per­son­alised cer­tifi­cate.

Flo­ri­an Reuter, Volo­copter’s Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, said: “Based on our pub­lic test flights and reg­u­la­to­ry achieve­ment record, we have paved the way to make elec­tric flight in cities com­mon in just a few years. With the start of reser­va­tions, we now invite our sup­port­ers and inno­va­tors around the world to join us and be amongst the first to expe­ri­ence this new and excit­ing form of mobil­i­ty.”

Volo­copter first made avi­a­tion his­to­ry in 2011 with its ‘Yoga-Ball’ flight and since then, the com­pa­ny has com­plet­ed sev­er­al pilot­ed and unpilot­ed flights across the world.

The most notable have been the pub­lic test flights at Singapore’s Mari­na Bay in Octo­ber 2019 and the world’s first autonomous eVTOL flight in Dubai in 2017.

It is the only eVTOL-focused aero­space com­pa­ny to receive Design Organ­i­sa­tion Approval (DOA) from the Euro­pean Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency. Volo­copter con­tin­ues to work close­ly with cities and part­ners around the world to bring togeth­er all exper­tise nec­es­sary to make bat­tery pow­ered air taxis a real­i­ty: reg­u­la­to­ry, cities, infra­struc­ture devel­op­ers, and flight traf­fic man­age­ment providers amongst oth­ers.

Volo­copter is also devel­op­ing prod­ucts for the logis­tics and pre­ci­sion agri­cul­ture space with their Volo­Drone. 

Chris­t­ian Bauer, Volocopter’s Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, added: “While the final cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for air taxis is still pend­ing, we do have a detailed real­is­tic time­line to launch com­mer­cial VoloC­i­ty flights in the next 2–3 years. More­over, those who reserve now can receive the lat­est updates about our progress and the com­mer­cial launch plan.”

Volo­copter has raised a total of €122 mil­lion in equi­ty, with investors includ­ing Daim­ler, Geely, DB Schenker and Intel Cap­i­tal.

More than 50 tick­ets have already been reserved, and they will be on sale until 31st Decem­ber. To make a reser­va­tion, vis­it the Volo­copter Reser­va­tion Plat­form.