ZeroAvia, Flyv Partner on “Clean, On-Demand Hydrogen-Electric Flight Across Europe” 

ZeroAvia and Flyv recent­ly announced they have signed an agree­ment to explore pow­er­ing Flyv’s on-demand, low-cost flight oper­a­tions using ZeroAvia’s hydro­gen-elec­tric engines, reports a press release.  

The release states, “Flyv aims to over­come the lim­i­ta­tions of con­ven­tion­al trav­el sys­tems, under strain from esca­lat­ing demand across many modal­i­ties. At the same time, many small­er air­fields are under-uti­lized. As new clean­er tech­nolo­gies reduce the oper­at­ing costs, an increase in ser­vices is fea­si­ble. “ 

The com­pa­ny also plans to use Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence to enable flex­i­ble book­ing for pas­sen­gers and match demand. Flyv will oper­ate small air­craft car­ry­ing around 10 peo­ple and is explor­ing exist­ing craft in ser­vice along­side nov­el zero-emis­sion designs.  

Mean­while, ZeroAvia is devel­op­ing efforts to cer­ti­fy a 600kW (ZA600) hydro­gen-elec­tric engine capa­ble of pow­er­ing 9 to 19 seat air­craft with fuel cell pow­er only. The com­pa­ny plans entry-in-ser­vice of its ZA600 in 2026. As part of the col­lab­o­ra­tion, the com­pa­nies are to explore region­al air mobil­i­ty net­works across Europe and the poten­tial eco­nom­ic and pas­sen­ger ben­e­fits of intro­duc­ing fuel cell-pow­ered flight.

James Peck

James Peck, CCO of ZeroAvia, com­ment­ed, “Fly­ing can be the clean­est, quick­est and cheap­est way to trav­el in the near future giv­en the rapid progress of zero-emis­sion propul­sion tech­nol­o­gy. It’s excit­ing to work with an inno­v­a­tive start-up air­line like Flyv that is rethink­ing the sta­tus quo to extend the ben­e­fits of fly­ing.” 

Anton Lutz, Co-Founder of Fly­vbird, added,  “With poli­cies across the EU steadi­ly mak­ing oper­at­ing fos­sil fuel flight more cost­ly and dif­fi­cult, it is cru­cial for us to align with part­ners like ZeroAvia, to pre­pare for a tru­ly sus­tain­able future. With its recent suc­cess­es in engine devel­op­ment and test­ing, the fea­si­bil­i­ty of this inno­v­a­tive approach is clear­er than ever.” 

ZeroAvia has been flight test­ing a pro­to­type of its ZA600 pow­er­train aboard a Dornier 228 air­craft at its UK base in Kem­ble, Glouces­ter­shire, since last year. Hydro­gen-elec­tric engines use hydro­gen in fuel cells to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty, which is then used to pow­er elec­tric motors to turn the aircraft’s pro­pellers. The only emis­sion is water. 

Back­ground

Flyv describes itself as “The world´s first low cost region­al on-demand air­line, rev­o­lu­tion­is­ing region­al air trav­el by employ­ing a cut­ting-edge, app-based sched­ul­ing plat­form.” The com­pa­ny explains that by util­is­ing advanced algo­rithms, “It tai­lors flight sched­ules dynam­i­cal­ly, respond­ing direct­ly to real-time pas­sen­ger demand.” With a keen focus on region­al air­ports, fly­vbird believes “it is not just bridg­ing gaps in con­nec­tiv­i­ty but also lead­ing the charge towards a green­er future.” 

For more infor­ma­tion

ZeroAvia.com

www.flyvbird.com 

(Top image: Zerovia)

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