Avports becomes latest company to join Jaunt Air Mobility’s Access Skyways group and support integration of eVTOL aircraft with airports

Avports has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing with Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty to join its Access Sky­ways infra­struc­ture alliance and sup­port the inte­gra­tion of eVTOL air­craft with air­ports and the avi­a­tion ecosys­tem.

This part­ner­ship builds on Avports’ ongo­ing efforts to tran­si­tion to a car­bon-neu­tral oper­at­ing envi­ron­ment. It is the described as the most expe­ri­enced Amer­i­can-owned and based air­port man­ag­er and oper­a­tor, with more than 650 employ­ees and a 94-year track record.

Found­ed in 1927 as the air­port infra­struc­ture oper­a­tor divi­sion of Pan Amer­i­can World Air­ways, Avports has oper­at­ed more than 30 air­ports, avi­a­tion facil­i­ties, and pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nals in the Unit­ed States, includ­ing 50 years pro­vid­ing air­port man­age­ment ser­vices in New York State. Avports cur­rent­ly pro­vides O&M ser­vices in states includ­ing Cal­i­for­nia, Con­necti­cut, Flori­da, Indi­ana, Michi­gan, New Jer­sey and New York.

Jorge Roberts, CEO of Avports, said,“Climate change is an all-impor­tant indus­try chal­lenge. With 95 years of air­port man­age­ment expe­ri­ence, Avports is posi­tioned to be part of the solu­tion. The future of air trav­el has to be envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly and sus­tain­able.

“By col­lab­o­rat­ing with Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty and the Access Sky­ways Alliance to pro­vide zero-emis­sion vehi­cle solu­tions, we act on our com­mu­ni­ty lead­er­ship val­ues and ESG (envi­ron­men­tal, social, and gov­er­nance) prin­ci­ples. We are ded­i­cat­ed to work­ing towards car­bon-free trav­el on behalf of our cus­tomers and the com­mu­ni­ties we serve.” 

Access Sky­ways will help organ­i­sa­tions nav­i­gate the com­plex­i­ty of intro­duc­ing a new sys­tem of tran­sit or ver­ti­ports to air oper­a­tions. It will address key fac­tors along the AAM ecosys­tem with fact-based data and ana­lyt­ics, such as infra­struc­ture design, sup­ply and demand cost analy­sis, flight oper­a­tions, elec­tri­fi­ca­tion, exist­ing air­ports and heli­ports, and main­te­nance and repair.

Thanks to this alliance, Avports and Jaunt will now pro­vide a con­ve­nient way for air­port own­ers, author­i­ties, and stake­hold­ers to effi­cient­ly decrease the com­plex­i­ty of imple­ment­ing Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty into their air­ports. The Access Sky­ways alliance offers exper­tise in:

• Con­struc­tion project man­age­ment
• Supply/demand and cost analy­sis
• Ver­ti­port design
• Elec­tri­fi­ca­tion
• Flight oper­a­tions
• Com­mu­ni­ty Engage­ment

Simon Briceno, Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer for Jaunt, said: “Access Sky­ways is an agree­ment with organ­i­sa­tions with dis­tinct areas of exper­tise in the plan­ning, design, devel­op­ment, and inte­gra­tion of eVTOL air­craft into the exist­ing glob­al trans­porta­tion sys­tem. As an OEM, we will be work­ing with oper­a­tors around the globe. We are pleased to part­ner with Avports as their exper­tise pro­vides crit­i­cal ele­ments to mak­ing this ser­vice a real­i­ty.”

Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty is devel­op­ing an eVTOL air­craft that uses Slow-Rotor Com­pound (SRC) tech­nol­o­gy which fus­es flight capa­bil­i­ties of a heli­copter and a fixed-wing air­plane. It says this cre­ates advance­ments enabling safe, fast urban air com­mut­ing. Jaun­t’s air­craft will have a range of between 80 and 100 miles, car­ry­ing a pilot and four pas­sen­gers.