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Skyports, SEA Milano, 2i Aeroporti Launch “VEGA Joint Venture”

Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture, a leader in ver­ti­port devel­op­ment for the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) indus­try, announced this week a col­lab­o­ra­tion with SEA Milan (own­er of Milan’s air­ports) and 2i Aero­por­ti (Ital­ian air­port invest­ment com­pa­ny con­trolled by F2i Funds man­age­ment), reports a press release. The part­ners have estab­lished VEGA, a joint ven­ture (JV) com­pa­ny, to advance the AAM ecosys­tem across Milan and the wider Lom­bardy region.

VEGA — which stands for Ver­ti­cal Gate­way — will focus on the deploy­ment of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture net­works through­out Lom­bardy and poten­tial­ly oth­er Ital­ian regions, open­ing the way for air taxi ser­vices. The aim of VEGA is to trans­form region­al mobil­i­ty, facil­i­tat­ing effi­cient, zero-emis­sion trans­porta­tion of both peo­ple and goods.

The release explains, “VEGA draws on the spe­cialised exper­tise of each joint ven­ture part­ner. Sky­ports will con­tribute its knowl­edge in devel­op­ing, con­struct­ing and oper­at­ing ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture; SEA Milan is to bring over 70 years of expe­ri­ence in man­ag­ing and oper­at­ing two of Italy’s busiest air­ports; and 2i Aero­por­ti will lever­age its strong rela­tion­ships with Ital­ian insti­tu­tions and its large nation­al air­port plat­form to nur­ture VEGA’s growth.”

The first aim is to launch oper­a­tions between Malpen­sa Air­port and cen­tral Milan. The JV will then focus on scal­ing oper­a­tions to oth­er parts of Lom­bardy and poten­tial­ly oth­er Ital­ian regions.

Malpen­sa Air­port (Cred­it: Malpen­sa Air­port)

Paolo­maria Capel­lo, CEO of VEGA, com­ment­ed, “We are deliv­er­ing cut­ting-edge elec­tric ver­ti­cal avi­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy, cre­at­ing faster, clean­er con­nec­tions between urban cen­tres, air­ports, and oth­er impor­tant hubs of eco­nom­ic activ­i­ty and tourism. With such strong part­ners involved in these efforts, we are in the best pos­si­ble posi­tion to achieve Italy’s AAM ambi­tions.”

Dami­an Kyse­ly, VEGA Direc­tor and Head of EMEA at Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture, remarked, “This joint ven­ture under­scores our com­mit­ment to build­ing the infra­struc­ture need­ed to make advanced air mobil­i­ty a real­i­ty for Milan and Lom­bardy. We are posi­tion­ing the region as a leader in Europe’s AAM future.”

The VEGA Board of Direc­tors is led by Alessan­dro Fida­to (SEA), who serves as Chair­man. The board also includes Lau­ra Pas­cot­to (F2i), and Chiara Dorig­ot­ti (SEA Prime) as direc­tors.

Pas­cot­to said, “F2i, through 2i Aero­por­ti, con­trols the largest air­port net­work in Italy, with over 63 mil­lion pas­sen­gers every year. As share­hold­ers of SEA and Sky­ports, we are thrilled to bring VEGA to life and par­tic­i­pate direct­ly in its devel­op­ment.”

Dami­an Kyse­ly

Back­ground

SEA Group, locat­ed in Italy, man­ages the Malpen­sa and Linate air­ports which are ranked among the first ten air­port sys­tems in Europe for vol­ume of traf­fic, in both the pas­sen­ger and car­go seg­ments.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.skyports.net

milanairports.com/it

https://www.f2isgr.it/en/portfolio/sea.html

(Top image: Sky­ports)

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