Bluenest by Globalvia Collaborate with Vinci Airports and Reserva Conchal “to Bring AAM to Costa Rica”

Bluen­est by Glob­alvia announced this week, it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Gua­nacaste Air­port (VINCI Air­ports) and Reser­va Con­chal to bring Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) to Cos­ta Rica, reports a press release.

The part­ner­ship organ­ised a demon­stra­tion flight at Gua­nacaste of an eVTOL by fly­ing an EHang 216‑S AAV. The autonomous air­craft took off from the heli­port locat­ed in Reser­va Con­chal and flew over a near­by golf course, coastal area, sea and large resort area, before it land­ed back at the take­off point.

This tri­al flight “makes Cos­ta Rica the pio­neer coun­try in Latin Amer­i­ca in terms of AAM,” says the release. “It is the first step of a more ambi­tious and com­mon objec­tive: pro­mot­ing sus­tain­abil­i­ty and inno­va­tion in Cos­ta Rica, by bring­ing eVTOLs to the coun­try.” This was pos­si­ble due to the “col­lab­o­ra­tion and coor­di­na­tion with the inspec­tors of the Gen­er­al Direc­torate of Civ­il Avi­a­tion of Cos­ta Rica in super­vis­ing the oper­a­tion with the dif­fer­ent par­tic­i­pat­ing actors.” 

Fer­nan­do Valle­jo Lázaro, Direc­tor of Inno­va­tion, IT and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty at Glob­alvia, remarked, “Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and inno­va­tion are the two fun­da­men­tal pil­lars that gov­ern Glob­alvi­a’s strat­e­gy and AAM brings togeth­er both qual­i­ties. Cos­ta Rica is the per­fect place to devel­op this future mobil­i­ty.”

The Team Involved with the EHang 216‑S Demon­stra­tion Flight

As part of this strat­e­gy, the part­ner­ship wish­es to show­case AAM and the ben­e­fits it brings to soci­ety and the envi­ron­ment.

These include:- 

: Zero emis­sions of CO2 and oth­er par­ti­cles, reduc­ing pol­lu­tion as it is an eco- sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion sys­tem.

: Low noise and tur­bu­lence lev­els.

: Con­nec­tiv­i­ty and socio-eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment in rur­al and moun­tain­ous areas, islands, or coastal areas and reduc­tion in traf­fic den­si­ty with­out the
need to deploy expen­sive land infra­struc­ture.

: Ver­sa­til­i­ty, region­al and urban trans­porta­tion, air taxi, air­port trans­porta­tion, emer­gency ser­vices and tourist routes, among oth­er uses. 

The part­ner­ship has also pre­sent­ed the spe­cif­ic use cas­es pro­posed for Cos­ta Rica, which range from tourist routes with panoram­ic views to faster trans­fers from the air­port to the country’s cen­tre or urgent deliv­ery of med­i­cines to remote areas. 

Please Watch Video

Enjoy EH216‑S pilot­less eVTOL debut flight in Latin Amer­i­ca.
Pura Vida Cos­ta Rica!#EH #eVTOL #UAM #AAM #CostaR­i­ca #Lati­nAmer­i­ca pic.twitter.com/pYkBoojPJl

— EHang (@ehang) March 20, 2024

Addi­tion­al­ly, what the trav­el expe­ri­ence would be like for some­one who wants to jour­ney from one end of the coun­try to the oth­er, rep­re­sent­ing the phas­es that the user would go through, includ­ing board­ing the air­craft and land­ing at the des­ti­na­tion.

César Jaramil­lo, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of Gua­nacaste Air­port, com­ment­ed, “This project meets both the sus­tain­abil­i­ty and devel­op­ment objec­tives of the Gua­nacaste region and the VINCI Air­ports roadmap to decar­bonise avi­a­tion and pro­mote inno­va­tion in each plat­form.” 

José Igna­cio Rodríguez, Man­ag­er of Bluen­est by Glob­alvia, added, “Our first val­i­da­tions of ver­ti­ports out­side of Spain, with the sup­port of the DGAC, West­in, and Gua­nacaste Air­port, are a great step for Bluen­est and the region, in our com­mon desire to offer safer, more effi­cient, qui­eter and sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty to vis­i­tors and res­i­dents.”

Back­ground

Glob­alvia is a lead­ing Span­ish com­pa­ny in the man­age­ment of trans­port infra­struc­ture con­ces­sions and mobil­i­ty ser­vices of 12 coun­tries. Projects involve high­ways, high speed rail­ways and the man­age­ment of Go-Ahead, the largest bus and train oper­a­tor in the UK. Bluen­est is the AAM arm of Glob­alvia. Its objec­tive is to be a key play­er with­in the Urban Air Mobil­i­ty rev­o­lu­tion, espe­cial­ly infra­struc­ture.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.bluenest.io/

https://www.vinci-airports.com/en

(Images: Bluen­est by Globalvia/EHang)

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