Avantto teams up with Eve Air Mobility in Brazil and Latin America, includes order for 100 eVTOL aircraft
Eve Urban Air Mobility and Aviation Management Services – Serviços Aeronáuticos Ltda. (‘Avantto’) have announced a partnership aimed at developing an Urban Air Mobility ecosystem in Brazil and across Latin America, which includes an order for 100 eVTOL aircraft.
Deliveries of the aircraft are expected to start in 2026 and both companies plan to begin their partnership working together to develop new services and procedures that, together with communities and other industry stakeholders, can create a safe and scalable environment for eVTOL operations to expand.
These efforts will focus on critical aspects of the passenger experience in order to design for all users, including how to maximise accessibility and inclusiveness in vertiports and eVTOL boarding operations.
Andre Stein, President & CEO of Eve, said: “Avantto has been a great partner for Embraer Executive Jets, and we are reinforcing this bond with a shared focus on sustainability in this next generation of transportation. The strength of Avantto’s experience in operations, coupled with their growth strategy, make an ideal partner for the future expansion of Eve’s eVTOL deployment in Brazil and across Latin America.
“We will work together to make sure we continue our mission to democratize aviation through increasing accessibility and affordability.”
Avantto is a leader in the Aircraft Sharing business in Brazil and the largest Embraer operator in Latin America for private aviation. With a portfolio of over 400 active users, Avantto does an average of 1,400 monthly take-offs (for both jets and helicopters) and flies over 850,000km per year.
Rogério Andrade, CEO, and Founder of Avantto, said: “For more than a decade, Avantto has uniquely developed software, systems, and procedures enabling the company to offer 24/7 on-call flight services for short-haul intra-city helicopter transportation to its hundreds of active members.
“This exclusive know-how will be one of the principal pillars of the urban air mobility ecosystem developed by the EVE/Avantto partnership.”
This latest partnership by Eve adds to a growing list of companies which have already teamed up to launch urban air mobility ecosystems in countries across the world. As well as Avantto in Brazil, Flapper and Helisul have also joined forces with Eve. Elsewhere, Microflite (Australia), Halo (UK and USA), Kenya Airways (Africa), Helipass (France), Ascent (Asia-Pacific), Skyports (Asia and the Americas) and Blade (USA) have all signed similar agreements.
Backed by Embraer’s more than 50-year history of aircraft manufacturing and certification expertise, Eve unveils a unique value proposition by offering a suite of products and services. Eve’s zero-emission and low noise eVTOL represents a simple and intuitive design that continues to reach development milestones, including the first flight of the engineering simulator in July 2020, and a proof of concept in October 2020.
In parallel, Eve’s Urban Air Traffic Management project reached a new milestone in its collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to develop a scalable environment needed to host UAM flights.
