America’s Flying Taxi Companies “Win Over the Middle East”

It is excit­ing to see the Mid­dle East’s dri­ving ambi­tion to spear­head the AAM indus­try, where elec­tric air taxis will become a dom­i­nant avi­a­tion force in the region over the next ten years, begin to unfold.

It is as clear as a whirring rotor blade that the glob­al lead­ing com­pa­nies in this nascent indus­try must have a major pres­ence in the MidEast and the U.S should be laud­ed that two of its own, Joby Avi­a­tion and Archer, have been fet­ed by the Crown Princes, Sheikhs and gov­ern­ing bod­ies to lead the charge.

Of course, Chi­na is the industry’s oth­er advanced bed­fel­low with lead­ing com­pa­nies like EHang and Aut­oFlight. So, for Amer­i­ca to beat Chi­na over the ear­ly Ara­bi­an spoils, is no mean feat.

At the recent Future Avi­a­tion Forum held in Riyadh, Sau­di Ara­bia, the U.S hoist­ed the fly­ing taxi flag; dis­played its futur­is­tic avi­a­tion prowess; and wooed the region’s rul­ing class.

JoeBen Meet­ing and Greet­ing

Both U.S com­pa­nies released a video on ‘X’, show­ing off their recent busi­ness suc­cess­es. Whether it was via charm per­son­i­fied, Archer’s Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, Nikhil Noel, or Joby’s Founder and CEO, JoeBen Bevirt. 

Joby tweet­ed, “We were pleased to show­case our air­craft to a wide range of gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the Future Avi­a­tion Forum in Riyadh, Sau­di Ara­bia today, and dis­cuss the excit­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for elec­tric ver­ti­cal flight as part of the King­dom’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty through its Vision 2030.” @ksagaca

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We were pleased to show­case our air­craft to a wide range of gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the Future Avi­a­tion Forum in Riyadh, Sau­di Ara­bia today, and dis­cuss the excit­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for elec­tric ver­ti­cal flight as part of the King­dom’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty through its… pic.twitter.com/6hbf6jemQ0

— Joby Avi­a­tion (@jobyaviation) May 20, 2024

Archer’s video release is very sim­i­lar in nature. 

Watch Video: Archer Avi­a­tion Show­cas­es “Recent Busi­ness Suc­cess in Mid­dle East”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.jobyaviation.com

https://archer.com/usher

(Top image: Joby Avi­a­tion)

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