VI&E Solutions and Skyrisks to assess key parameters for vertiport insurance

Vola­tus Infra­struc­ture & Ener­gy Solu­tions has signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing with Skyrisks, the glob­al leader in advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) insur­ance.

VI&E Solu­tions will col­lab­o­rate with Skyrisks to assess and mea­sure key para­me­ters for eVTOL ver­ti­port insur­a­bil­i­ty, and will also eval­u­ate the dri­vers of insur­ance costs and inves­ti­gate how to man­age risks dur­ing design, con­struc­tion and oper­a­tion phas­es.

VI&E Solu­tions CEO Dan Sloat said: “Insur­ance is essen­tial to launch­ing AAM oper­a­tions and we are pleased to part­ner with for­ward-think­ing lead­ers like Skyrisks. Fly­ing cars’ have cap­tured the imag­i­na­tion of bil­lions of peo­ple and now that the tech­nol­o­gy is fea­si­ble, it’s time to solid­i­fy the real world, prac­ti­cal ele­ments like com­pre­hen­sive insur­ance poli­cies that we need in place to turn this dream into real­i­ty.”

Skyrisks CEO Alis­tair Blundy added: “As we devel­op inno­v­a­tive insur­ance for the AAM ecosys­tem, risk analy­sis of the emerg­ing ver­ti­port net­work is immense­ly valu­able. We believe in the pow­er of col­lab­o­ra­tion and are part­ner­ing with VI&E Solu­tions to assess the insur­ance chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with the crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture that will enable a safer and more sus­tain­able future of avi­a­tion.

“As the AAM indus­try nears wide-scale adop­tion, there is an increas­ing need for insur­ers who under­stand the unique chal­lenges and will main­tain sup­port­ive part­ner­ships as the indus­try matures.”

Skyrisks claims to be the glob­al leader in air­craft insur­ance and risk man­age­ment solu­tions for the fast-grow­ing AAM sec­tor. Its AAM insur­ance exper­tise and data-dri­ven approach enables it to devel­op insur­ance prod­ucts as inno­v­a­tive as their clients’ busi­ness­es.

Skyrisks is pas­sion­ate about insur­ing the safe, quick, afford­able and envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able move­ment of peo­ple and goods.

Ear­li­er this month, VI&E Solu­tions formed a part­ner­ship with Neu­ro­botx to be the first ver­ti­port on the Boe­ing-backed Metapi­lot plat­form, which will gen­er­ate syn­thet­ic data for real world eVTOL oper­a­tions.

Vola­tus and Neu­ro­botx begin Metapi­lot buildup of first 900 ver­ti­ports