Plana and Moviation join forces on AAM Ecosystem

Plana has entered into a busi­ness part­ner­ship with Movi­a­tion, a local UAM ser­vice start­up that intro­duced its urban air mobil­i­ty ser­vice plat­form Von­aer in Feb­ru­ary, to offer extra ser­vices for user con­ve­nience, such as book­ing air vehi­cles like heli­copters and eVTOLs, link­ing with ground trans­porta­tion ser­vices, and run­ning lounges.

The busi­ness part­ner­ship cer­e­mo­ny took place at Plana’s head­quar­ters in Gihe­ung-gu, Yon­gin, and attend­ed by Plana CEO Braden Kim and Movi­a­tion CEO Shin Min. Its goal is to gen­er­ate new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties and boost the growth of the AAM ecosys­tem.

As part of the agree­ment, the two com­pa­nies will share infor­ma­tion and dis­cuss routes, cab­in con­fig­u­ra­tions, and cus­tomer expe­ri­ence to max­imise cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion. The com­pa­nies will also look for poten­tial oppor­tu­ni­ties in the AAM busi­ness to attain mutu­al ben­e­fits and shared growth.

“We are excit­ed to improve the sat­is­fac­tion of our future pas­sen­gers based on the infra­struc­ture and data accu­mu­lat­ed by Movi­a­tion. We hope that this MOU will help us expand the domes­tic AAM mar­ket,” said Kim.

Min added: “This part­ner­ship is very mean­ing­ful to us as two Kore­an star­tups have formed a coop­er­a­tive rela­tion­ship in the AAM mar­ket, which is dom­i­nat­ed by var­i­ous large com­pa­nies. We hope it will send a mes­sage to all those involved in the indus­try to coop­er­ate.”

Movi­a­tion is cur­rent­ly using heli­copters to pro­vide ser­vices and accu­mu­late know-how in urban avi­a­tion oper­a­tions, and plans to imple­ment UAM ser­vices through eVTOL air­craft after 2025.

Ear­li­er this month, Plana announced that it will deliv­er 50 eVTOL air­craft to Japan’s Sky­Taxi for the hybrid eVTOL CP-01 cur­rent­ly under devel­op­ment. The ini­tial 10 air­crafts will be deliv­ered by 2030, fol­lowed by an addi­tion­al 40 by 2040.

PLANA to deliv­er 50 eVTOL air­craft to Japan’s Sky­Taxi