Airbus, LCI to Collaborate “on development of AAM Ecosystems”

Air­bus and LCI, a lead­ing glob­al avi­a­tion com­pa­ny, have announced a col­lab­o­ra­tion to joint­ly devel­op ecosys­tems for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM). The part­ner­ship is to focus on the devel­op­ment of three core areas: Strat­e­gy, com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion and financ­ing, reports a press release.

The com­pa­nies will togeth­er devel­op AAM mar­ket per­spec­tives and fore­casts; con­duct indus­try research; and har­ness data ana­lyt­ics to under­stand new appli­ca­tions and mis­sions. The release explains, “They will sup­port the devel­op­ment and eval­u­a­tion of new AAM solu­tions and com­mer­cial struc­tures in areas like fleet, bat­tery and net­work charg­ing.”

Balk­iz Sar­i­han, CEO and Head of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty at Air­bus, remarked, ”We are excit­ed to extend our long-stand­ing rela­tion­ship with LCI. The company’s com­bi­na­tion of oper­a­tional exper­tise, cus­tomer net­works and finan­cial insights, com­ple­ments Air­bus’ tech­ni­cal inno­va­tion in flight tech­nolo­gies, and will enable us to col­lec­tive­ly dri­ve the devel­op­ment of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.”

Jas­pal Jan­du

Jas­pal Jan­du, CEO of LCI, com­ment­ed, “For two decades, LCI and Air­bus have deliv­ered capac­i­ty and financ­ing solu­tions to air­lines and oper­a­tors across the globe, and we are now extend­ing that to AAM. By com­bin­ing our respec­tive strengths, we will incu­bate and accel­er­ate an entire­ly new gen­er­a­tion of avi­a­tion.”

As part of the col­lab­o­ra­tion, LCI will become “a key finan­cial part­ner for Air­bus’ AAM projects around par­tic­u­lar mis­sion types, such as emer­gency med­ical ser­vices and will lever­age its net­work to aid glob­al take up and accep­tance. It will also explore inno­v­a­tive leas­ing and finance solu­tions for poten­tial cus­tomers for CityAir­bus NextGen,” con­tin­ues the release.

Air­bus finalised the assem­bly of its CityAir­bus NextGen at the end of 2023. In the next phase this year, the com­pa­ny is to com­mence the aircraft’s tri­al cam­paign, dur­ing which it will make use of its new AAM test cen­tre in Donauwörth, Ger­many.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.airbus.com/en/innovation/low-carbon-aviation/ur­ban-air-mobil­i­ty/c­ityair­bus-nextgen

https://www.lciaviation.com/

(Top image: CityAir­bus NextGen)

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