Denmark Prepares for eVTOLs, Partnership to Begin Construction of Vertiports

Den­mark is prepar­ing for eVTOLs with a recent announce­ment that a part­ner­ship has been formed to con­struct the country’s first ver­ti­port, reports a press release. HCA Air­port, locat­ed in Odense and Copen­hagen Heli­copter, will col­lab­o­rate to build the first ver­ti­port in Den­mark for eVTOLs to fly peo­ple between the country’s largest cities.

Before the end of the sum­mer, the first fly­ing taxi should take to the Den­mark skies as part of a tri­al over Funen, the third-largest Dan­ish island with an area of 1,196.8 square miles, where the end-goal is to estab­lish a land­ing site on top of Odense Cen­tral Sta­tion. The even­tu­al aim is for a fleet of eVTOLs fly­ing between Denmark’s largest cities and oth­er near­by Euro­pean cities like Gothen­burg, Berlin and Ham­burg.

Kim Ken­lev, Chair­man of HCA Air­port, com­ment­ed, “I fore­see that in a few years’ time you can take the light rail to Odense Sta­tion and from there embark on a fly­ing taxi to Copen­hagen or oth­er Dan­ish cities.” He con­tin­ued, “Now is the time to start build­ing a brand new infra­struc­ture based ini­tial­ly on manned fly­ing taxis that fly on green pow­er and con­tribute to the government’s goal of achiev­ing 100 per­cent green domes­tic trans­port by 2030.”

Adding, “I see noth­ing stop­ping us from fly­ing to cities like Gothen­burg, Ham­burg or Berlin in the future. Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty is high on the agen­da every­where, and these cities are with­in reach of these fly­ing taxis.”

Odense Cen­tral Sta­tion

Ini­tial­ly, the part­ner­ship aims to attract for­eign AAM oper­a­tors to HCA Air­port, which already hosts an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised ‘UAS Den­mark Test Cen­tre’, for tri­als and demon­stra­tions to take place.

Mar­tin Ander­sen, CEO of Copen­hagen Heli­copter, remarked, “Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty is based on a new rev­o­lu­tion in avi­a­tion that says good­bye to fos­sil fuels in favour of elec­tri­fi­ca­tion and bio­fu­els. It offers a whole new oppor­tu­ni­ty to trans­port peo­ple on a dai­ly basis via the skies, while reduc­ing green­house gas emis­sions, reduc­ing noise lev­els and much more.”

Accord­ing to Ander­sen, Copen­hagen Helicopter’s own cal­cu­la­tions, based on inter­na­tion­al and nation­al reports, indi­cate that the AAM mar­ket has huge poten­tial and could trans­port 84,000 pas­sen­gers a day and remove 120,000 tonnes of CO2 from Dan­ish roads by 2035.

Peter Rah­bæk Juel, May­or of Odense Munic­i­pal­i­ty, added, “We can see that oth­er coun­tries and cities are already way ahead, and Den­mark and Odense must fol­low the trend. I see this as the first steps towards a new busi­ness ven­ture that should gen­er­ate jobs, con­tribute to the green tran­si­tion, and cre­ate a whole new way of trans­port­ing peo­ple.”

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