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Korea’s Toff Mobility to offer tourism and logistics flights as part its electric aircraft service from 2024

Toff Mobil­i­ty claims it will start tourism and logis­tic ser­vices via elec­tric flight in Asia from next year, as anoth­er com­pa­ny from Korea enters the glob­al Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty mar­ket.

Chan-young Jung, who is Toff Mobil­i­ty’s CEO, ini­tial­ly worked as a flight atten­dant with 6,000 hours of flight expe­ri­ence — includ­ing some as a pilot. He also worked in UAM strat­e­gy devel­op­ment, with three years of expe­ri­ence. 

Jung has for­mu­lat­ed strate­gies and con­duct­ed research on the future avi­a­tion mobil­i­ty, which led him to be con­fi­dent about busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties of estab­lish­ing an elec­tric air­line. In a press release reveal­ing more details, the com­pa­ny says its ser­vice is to be oper­at­ed by peo­ple with avi­a­tion exper­tise, with plans to emerge as ‘Asia’s best future avi­a­tion mobil­i­ty com­pa­ny beyond Korea’

Toff Mobil­i­ty CEO Chan young Jungleft pic­tured with Pipistrels Pres­i­dent Gabriel Massey right Cred­it Toff Mobil­i­ty

Jung said: “Inter­est in Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) is very hot, but there are still many tech­ni­cal and reg­u­la­to­ry issues to be resolved. All in all, elec­tric air­craft pre­pare for the future indus­try and are the most real­is­tic first step towards a sus­tain­able avi­a­tion indus­try solu­tion. 

“Toff Mobil­i­ty will do its best with its respon­si­bil­i­ty for car­bon-zero tourism. We will open the era of eco-friend­ly air mobil­i­ty in 2024, demon­strat­ing with aero­planes that have been cer­ti­fied by EASA. We plan to start tourism and logis­tics ser­vices in the sec­ond half of 2024 and expand ser­vices to Ulle­ung Island, Jeju Island and local air­ports in 2026.” 

Toff Mobil­i­ty plans to adopt EASA-cer­ti­fied elec­tric air­craft and will organ­ise a team of experts with prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence relat­ed to elec­tric air­craft as well as fos­sil-fuel air­craft, to ver­i­fy safe­ty and sta­bil­i­ty. They are also plan­ning to pre­pare for com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion through var­i­ous stud­ies.

Korea is one of sev­er­al coun­tries in Asia which is accel­er­at­ing plans to adopt Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty ser­vices with­in its cities. Oth­er com­pa­nies are already tak­ing an inter­est and sign­ing part­ner­ships, includ­ing Urban-Air Port, which recent­ly joined forces with Han­wha Sys­tems and Korea Air­port.

Joby Avi­a­tion is also work­ing with SK Tele­com as it tar­gets air taxi oper­a­tions in South Korea, while oth­er notable com­pa­nies in Korea include MintAir, PLANA Aero, Movi­a­tion and Kakao Mobil­i­ty — with a lot of focus on the coun­try’s K‑UAM Grand Chal­lenge.

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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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