Second AIRTAXI World Congress set for Istanbul and features live VTOL aircraft demonstrations

Would you like to be at the front and cen­tre of the first ver­ti­cal air show AIRTAXI World Con­gress® at the world’s best hotel* this Sep­tem­ber to expe­ri­ence the live demon­stra­tions of VTOL air­craft?

The sec­ond AIRTAXI World Con­gress® will head this Sep­tem­ber to Istan­bul Bospho­rus Strait where East meets West, unit­ing air taxis, eVTOLs, air­lines, air­ports, investors & key UAM ecosys­tem togeth­er from the Philip­pines to Chile, Aus­tralia to the USA, Chi­na to Ger­many, and UAE to the UK. 

Pre-sched­uled 1‑to‑1 pri­vate meet­ings are at the heart of the event with over 250 world­wide deci­sion-mak­ers to allow indus­try pro­fes­sion­als to spend their valu­able time in the most effi­cient way. 

The sec­ond AIRTAXI® is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Inmarsat as the Air­line Host Part­ner. Bil­isim Vadisi (Tech­nol­o­gy Devel­op­ment Zone of Turkey) and Air­Car Corp as the high­light of the ver­ti­cal air show demon­stra­tions, the event will bring togeth­er the best senior deci­sion-mak­ers pos­si­ble!  

Among already con­firmed atten­dees are EASA, CEO of Atlas Crest Invest­ments, CEO of Archer, CMO of EHang, CEO of Air­Car, Unit­ed Air­lines, CEO of GMR Group, CCO of Sky­roads, and oth­ers.  

When not in meet­ings, cut­ting-edge Sum­mit Pro­gram will look into the lat­est updates on Ver­ti­ports Devel­op­ment and UTM sys­tems, fol­lowed by keynote inter­views of C‑level investors, air­lines and man­u­fac­tures. The pro­gram dis­cuss­es the process of pur­chas­ing elec­tric vehi­cles zoom­ing into dif­fer­ent mod­els, cor­po­rate vs asset financ­ing, oper­at­ing leas­ing and insur­ance impli­ca­tions.

Ver­ti­cal Demon­stra­tion and Exhi­bi­tion & Sta­t­ic Dis­plays is anoth­er core ele­ment of the event. 

The Sum­mit starts on the 12 of Sep­tem­ber with the VVIP heli­copter arrivals from IGA Istan­bul air­port into Raf­fles heli­pad for 18:00 Pre-Event Net­work­ing at the world’s famous Raf­fles Long Bar.

The first and sec­ond day will see heat­ed pan­el dis­cus­sions on:

• Ver­ti­port devel­op­ment updates and real-life expe­ri­ences
• UTM Sys­tems — lat­est devel­op­ments
• Exclu­sive inter­view of key investor: What is Involved in the Pur­chas­ing Process of an Elec­tric Vehi­cle?  
• Top eVTOL Man­u­fac­tur­ers — Ask any­thing; No bound­aries  
• UAM Chang­ing mobil­i­ty in the city — lat­est devel­op­ments
• How to pre­pare your air­port for elec­tric air­craft

The third day will start with VVIP Heli­copter Trans­fers from Raf­fles to Bil­isim Vadisi (Tech­nol­o­gy Devel­op­ment Zone of Turkey), and fea­ture an air show with an excit­ing line-up of ver­ti­cal demon­stra­tions and sight tour of the zone. There will be a VIP Hos­pi­tal­i­ty and Media Inter­views.

Organ­ised by Glob­al Trav­el Invest­ments (GTI), the first AIRTAXI World Con­gress took place from 12–14 Octo­ber 2021 at Lon­don Heathrow’s Hilton Hotel, described as the world’s only ver­ti­cal air show ded­i­cat­ed for the air taxis and urban eVTOL air­craft. 

*Accord­ing to the 2021 Trav­ellers’ Awards