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Middle East: “Lilium eVTOL Showcased by Saudia Group at Global Logistics Forum, Riyadh” 

The Lil­i­um eVTOL Jet was unveiled at the Glob­al Logis­tics Forum in Riyadh at the week­end (Octo­ber 12th-14th) by the Sau­di Ara­bi­an Air­line, Saudia Group (SG), reports aam-me-ae. Saudia signed a bind­ing sale agree­ment in July for 50 Lil­i­um Jets.

The dis­play “under­scores the company’s com­mit­ment to inte­grat­ing advanced tech­nol­o­gy and sus­tain­able trav­el solu­tions,” explains the arti­cle, “and aimed at enhanc­ing the expe­ri­ence for both res­i­dents and vis­i­tors through­out Sau­di Ara­bia.”

eVTOL air­craft are set to trans­form region­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty around the Mid­dle East region by pro­vid­ing effi­cient first and last-leg links into Saudia Airline’s region­al hubs. More­over, they will intro­duce new point-to-point routes, such as Jed­dah to Makkah, which could reduce trav­el times by as much as 90 per­cent.

The first Lil­i­um Jets are expect­ed to be deliv­ered dur­ing 2026, with oper­a­tions man­aged and run by Saudia Pri­vate, a sub­sidiary of SG.

Linked in mes­sage from Saudia Air­line’s Chief Mar­ket­ing Offi­cer, Khaled Tash

They will play a piv­otal role in Sau­di Arabia’s tourism and pil­grim­age sec­tors, facil­i­tat­ing faster access for Hajj and Umrah pil­grims, while improv­ing trans­port to major sports and enter­tain­ment events in Riyadh.

Addi­tion­al­ly, SG sees the air­craft unlock­ing new oppor­tu­ni­ties for trav­el to remote and emerg­ing tourist des­ti­na­tions, there­by boost­ing the Kingdom’s appeal as a glob­al tourism area.

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The arti­cle con­tin­ues, “Sau­di Ara­bia has recog­nised the sub­stan­tial growth poten­tial of eVTOL tech­nol­o­gy and is tak­ing deci­sive steps to inte­grate this new mode of trans­port into its exist­ing air­space and traf­fic infra­struc­ture by 2026, as out­lined in its Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) Roadmap.”

Lil­i­um has been col­lab­o­rat­ing close­ly with the Sau­di Ara­bi­an Gen­er­al Author­i­ty of Civ­il Avi­a­tion (GACA) over recent years, con­tribut­ing to the devel­op­ment of a reg­u­la­to­ry frame­work essen­tial for the safe oper­a­tion of eVTOL air­craft in the King­dom. This was for­malised by a part­ner­ship agree­ment in July.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://jet.lilium.com

News Source: https://aam-me.ae/

(Top image: Lil­i­um)

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