Middle East: UrbanV, Cluster2 Sign Agreement “to Boost AAM in Saudi Arabia”

UrbanV, an Ital­ian ver­ti­port net­work devel­op­er and Cluster2, a lead­ing avi­a­tion oper­a­tor in Sau­di Ara­bia and a sub­sidiary of MATARAT Hold­ings, are col­lab­o­rat­ing to boost the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) ecosys­tem in Cluster2’s Air­port net­work, reports a press release. The part­ner­ship aims to pre­pare the ground­work for com­mer­cial eVTOL oper­a­tions in the King­dom of Sau­di Ara­bia.

The two com­pa­nies will ini­tial­ly con­duct a com­pre­hen­sive fea­si­bil­i­ty study to imple­ment AAM solu­tions at Cluster2 air­ports, while ensur­ing com­pli­ance with the reg­u­la­tions of the Gen­er­al Author­i­ty of Civ­il Avi­a­tion in the King­dom of Sau­di Ara­bia, includ­ing safe­ty stan­dards and envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion includes UrbanV pro­vid­ing train­ing pro­grams and tech­ni­cal knowl­edge with rel­e­vant par­ties.

UrbanV and ICAD join forces to devel­op ver­ti­port oper­a­tions in Sau­di Ara­bia and across Mid­dle East region

Also, the part­ners are to launch ini­tial pilot pro­grams tar­get­ed at eVTOL ser­vices and gen­er­al appli­ca­tions such as med­ical emer­gen­cies, VIP trans­port and car­go logis­tics. “These will act as proof-of-con­cept ini­tia­tives to eval­u­ate the oper­a­tional inte­gra­tion of AAM in real-world con­di­tions,” explains the release.

Car­lo Tur­si, CEO at UrbanV, com­ment­ed, “We have the ambi­tion to become a major oper­a­tor of ver­ti­port net­works and to become glob­al pio­neers in estab­lish­ing some of the first AAM routes world­wide. We are excit­ed to part­ner with Cluster2 and explore the great poten­tial of intro­duc­ing advanced air mobil­i­ty in Sau­di Ara­bia.”

Eng. Ali Mas­rahi, CEO of the Cluster2 Air­ports, added, “We seek to have a pres­ence and lead­er­ship in AAM solu­tions by cre­at­ing an inte­grat­ed ecosys­tem includ­ing envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty in all our var­i­ous air­ports in the King­dom.”

The two com­pa­nies are com­mit­ted to Sau­di Arabia’s Vision 2030 and its broad­er sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals, includ­ing the use of zero-emis­sion eVTOL vehi­cles and envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able ver­ti­port designs.

Back­ground

Cluster2 Air­ports was launched on Jan­u­ary 1st, 2022 as the last stage of the insti­tu­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion pro­gram for the King­dom of Sau­di Ara­bia air­ports. It is now a lead­ing avi­a­tion oper­a­tor in the King­dom, man­ag­ing and oper­at­ing 22 air­ports, includ­ing 12 inter­na­tion­al ones. These include Prince Nayef bin Abdu­laz­iz, con­struct­ed in 1971 and locat­ed to the west of Buray­dah City, the admin­is­tra­tive cap­i­tal of Qas­sim Province and Wadi Al Dawasir Domes­tic Air­port, built in 1990 and locat­ed in Riyadh Province.

Prince Nayef bin Abdu­laz­iz Air­port (Cred­it: The Air­port)

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.urbanv.com/en

https://cluster2airports.sa/en-us

(Top image: Eng. Ali Mas­rah, Car­lo Tut­si — Cred­it: UrbanV/Cluster2)

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