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Eve Air Mobility and Groupe ADP in MoU to help prepare Paris’ Le Bourget Airport for eVTOL aircraft operations

Eve Air Mobil­i­ty has signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing with Groupe ADP (Aéro­port de Paris), which aims to pre­pare the future of low-car­bon avi­a­tion in and around Le Bour­get Air­port in Paris.

For Eve, the com­pa­ny intends to work with Groupe ADP to pre­pare the nec­es­sary envi­ron­ment for eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions, includ­ing ser­vice and sup­port activ­i­ties such as train­ing, main­te­nance, ground han­dling ser­vices, and facil­i­tate poten­tial demon­stra­tion flights for pub­lic-pri­vate ini­tia­tives.

This part­ner­ship, which was announced today (Fri­day), will also strength­en Embraer’s oper­a­tions and its facil­i­ty Le Bour­get, Europe’s lead­ing busi­ness avi­a­tion air­port.

Johann Bor­dais, CEO of Eve Air Mobil­i­ty, said: “Eve and Groupe ADP have a shared vision of mak­ing avi­a­tion more sus­tain­able, so this col­lab­o­ra­tion is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to sup­port this tran­si­tion.

“Eve takes a com­pre­hen­sive approach to urban air mobil­i­ty and under­stands that sus­tain­abil­i­ty must be addressed on all fronts, includ­ing ser­vice and sup­port facil­i­ties and ver­ti­ports. We look for­ward to work­ing with Embraer and Groupe ADP to inten­si­fy our efforts and make eVTOL flights a real­i­ty glob­al­ly.”

This MoU will cov­er the cre­ation of new capa­bil­i­ties to enhance Embraer’s air­craft main­te­nance oper­a­tions, to pre­pare for the future Ener­gia fam­i­ly, and to sup­port the devel­op­ment of Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) oper­a­tions with eVTOLs.

Embraer Ser­vices & Sup­port intends to design and then trans­fer its cur­rent facil­i­ties to a new main­te­nance build­ing to opti­mize its capac­i­ty, while aim­ing for the most advanced stan­dards in low-car­bon con­struc­tion and ener­gy self-suf­fi­cien­cy. The new air­craft main­te­nance facil­i­ty is expect­ed to more than dou­ble the unit’s capac­i­ty.

Embraer’s Ener­gia pro­gram was updat­ed last year with two con­cept air­craft mod­els of 19 and 30 seats, with hybrid-elec­tric and hydro­gen-elec­tric propul­sion.

Final­ly, Groupe ADP intends to pro­vide its exper­tise to sup­port future oper­a­tions of the Ener­gia air­craft fam­i­ly at Paris-Le Bour­get, with the study of a hydro­gen infra­struc­ture. It devel­ops and man­ages air­ports, includ­ing Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bour­get.

In 2023, the group han­dled through its brand Paris Aéro­port 99.7 mil­lion pas­sen­gers at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly, and near­ly 336.4 mil­lion pas­sen­gers in air­ports abroad.

Edward Ark­wright, Deputy CEO of Groupe ADP, said: “We are proud that Embraer, the world’s lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of inno­v­a­tive air­craft, and Eve, are strength­en­ing their pres­ence and activ­i­ties at Paris-Le Bour­get air­port.

“We know they will be excel­lent part­ners in advanc­ing the tran­si­tion to low-car­bon avi­a­tion, espe­cial­ly for small air­craft. Paris-Le Bour­get is a pio­neer­ing air­port. Thanks to the mobi­liza­tion of all its teams, it will be able to pro­mote Embraer’s new sus­tain­able tech­nolo­gies: hybrid, elec­tric and hydro­gen engines.”

Car­los Naufel, Pres­i­dent and CEO, Embraer Ser­vices & Sup­port, added: “We are very hap­py to deep­en our part­ner­ship with the Groupe ADP. Our new facil­i­ties in Le Bour­get will rein­force our com­mit­ment to excel­lence in ser­vices, growth, sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and inno­va­tion. Embraer has been in France for more than 40 years, and we hope to advance even more our long-term rela­tion­ship with the coun­try.”

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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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