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Eve and Skyports to develop new ConOps for Advanced Air Mobility for Japan’s Civil Aviation Bureau

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty and Sky­ports are work­ing togeth­er to sup­port the devel­op­ment of a new Con­cept of Oper­a­tions (CONOPS) for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty for the Japan Civ­il Avi­a­tion Bureau.

The ini­tia­tive aims to pro­vide a shared vision of air­space design, oper­a­tion, infra­struc­ture, and oth­er ben­e­fits to enable AAM oper­a­tion in Japan. It The involves part­ners includ­ing Kane­mat­su Cor­po­ra­tion, the major Japan­ese trad­ing com­pa­ny with busi­ness­es in the aero­space indus­try, and Japan Air­lines (JAL), the main Japan­ese pas­sen­ger air­line for domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al air trans­porta­tion.

Dun­can Walk­er, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer at Sky­ports, said: “Our part­ner­ship with Eve con­tin­ues to pro­vide an impor­tant means of help­ing author­i­ties around the world under­stand and devel­op the opti­mum con­di­tions to enable com­mer­cial elec­tric air taxi oper­a­tions. We are hon­oured to be able to bring our unique knowl­edge of infra­struc­ture pro­vi­sion to bear for JCAB to accel­er­ate the adop­tion of advanced air mobil­i­ty across Japan.”

Eve has part­nered with Sky­ports in mul­ti­ple and diverse con­cepts world­wide, form­ing coop­er­a­tion that exam­ines the AAM ecosys­tem required for dis­tinc­tive oper­at­ing envi­ron­ments across the globe. This unique expe­ri­ence ben­e­fits the prepa­ra­tion of Japan’s CONOPS and ensures that the needs of users, the Japan­ese com­mu­ni­ty, and oth­er stake­hold­ers will be tak­en into account.

Andre Stein, co-CEO of Eve, added: “We are excit­ed about part­ner­ing with Sky­ports on this new project that will intro­duce sus­tain­able advanced air mobil­i­ty to Japan. Our col­lab­o­ra­tions have suc­cess­ful­ly designed dis­tinct and opti­mized mobil­i­ty ecosys­tems across the world, and we look for­ward to using this expe­ri­ence to help JCAB estab­lish the CONOPS for Japan.”

Japan con­tin­ues to accel­er­ate its move­ments on becom­ing one of the first coun­tries to adopt AAM ser­vices. In recent weeks, Joby Avi­a­tion has con­firmed it is work­ing with ANA Hold­ings to estab­lish a aer­i­al ride-shar­ing ser­vice, while EHang announced its first order for the com­pa­ny’s long-range VT30 eVTOL air­craft and a pre-order for 50 of its 216 AAV from AirX.

Japan Air­lines has also select­ed Ver­ti­cal Aero­space’s VX4 eVTOL air­craft from Avolon’s order­book, while Volo­copter has joined Osa­ka Round­table to under­line its com­mit­ment to launch­ing ser­vice in the near future. Oth­er com­pa­nies which have signed part­ner­ships in Japan include Dufour Aero­space and Wing­copter.

To-date, Eve has been ded­i­cat­ed to safe­ly enabling and scal­ing the AAM ecosys­tem glob­al­ly. It will pro­vide a holis­tic port­fo­lio of solu­tions, includ­ing an eVTOL air­craft, com­pre­hen­sive glob­al ser­vices and sup­port net­work and a unique air traf­fic man­age­ment solu­tion.

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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