“Archer Aviation Unveils Planned New York Air Taxi Network in Collaboration with United Airlines” 

Archer Avi­a­tion announced plans this week for a New York City air taxi net­work in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Unit­ed Air­lines, reports a press release. Flight routes include between Man­hat­tan and NYC’s major air­ports.

Archer’s aim is for pas­sen­gers to go to a near­by ver­ti­port or land­ing loca­tion, then fly 5–15 min­utes in the company’s Mid­night Air­craft to their des­ti­na­tion of choice with­in the net­work, poten­tial­ly sav­ing hours instead of being stuck in con­gest­ed traf­fic on the roads. 

The planned New York net­work will ini­tial­ly focus on using exist­ing avi­a­tion prop­er­ties around the region, with plans for ver­ti­ports in the fol­low­ing loca­tions.

: Major Air­ports — John F. Kennedy Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, LaGuardia Air­port, Newark Air­port.

: NYC Heli­pads - East 34th Street Heli­port, Down­town Sky­port, West 30th Street Heli­port.

: Region­al Air­ports - Westch­ester Coun­ty Air­port, Teter­boro Air­port, Repub­lic Air­port.

Adam Gold­stein, CEO and a Founder of Archer, com­ment­ed, “The New York region is home to three of the world’s pre­em­i­nent air­ports, serv­ing upwards of 150 mil­lion pas­sen­gers annu­al­ly. But the dri­ve from Man­hat­tan to any of these air­ports can be painful, tak­ing one, some­times two hours. We want to change that by giv­ing res­i­dents and vis­i­tors the option to com­plete trips in mere min­utes.”

He con­tin­ued, “With its exist­ing heli­copter infra­struc­ture, reg­u­la­to­ry sup­port and strong demand, I believe New York could be one of the first mar­kets for air taxis in the Unit­ed States.”

The release explains, “Pas­sen­gers would book these flights as an ‘add-on’ to a tra­di­tion­al flight, help­ing to reduce trav­el time to-or-from the air­port. For exam­ple, a cus­tomer could fly in Mid­night from the Down­town Sky­port direct­ly to Newark Air­port, enjoy­ing a scenic ride of less than 10 min­utes, ver­sus spend­ing an hour or more in traf­fic. Unit­ed pre­vi­ous­ly placed an order for a fleet of Archer’s Mid­night air­craft and has remained a long-time investor in the com­pa­ny.”

Andrew Chang, Head of Unit­ed Air­lines Ven­tures, remarked, “At Unit­ed, our focus is on dri­ving inno­va­tion, reimag­ing the future of air trav­el and enhanc­ing the cus­tomer expe­ri­ence every step of the jour­ney.”

He added, “Our strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tion with Archer will be key to our efforts to build and opti­mise the infra­struc­ture, such as real estate devel­op­ment, air space man­age­ment and safe­ty and secu­ri­ty pro­to­cols. These are nec­es­sary to bring advanced air mobil­i­ty to our cus­tomers.”

Archer aims to devel­op the net­work ver­ti­ports in col­lab­o­ra­tion with its exist­ing infra­struc­ture part­ners Atlantic Avi­a­tion, Sig­na­ture Avi­a­tion and Skyports/GroupeADP, as well as new part­ners Mod­ern Avi­a­tion and Air Pega­sus.

Andrew Kim­ball, Pres­i­dent & CEO of the New York City Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (NYCEDC), said, “New York City is lead­ing the way in embrac­ing AAM and safe­ly inte­grat­ing this new tech­nol­o­gy into our city’s trans­porta­tion net­works. The next fron­tier of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty is hap­pen­ing soon­er than many think and our Down­town Sky­port will play an impor­tant role.”

Archer pre­vi­ous­ly announced air taxi net­works in San Fran­cis­co and Los Ange­les and is cur­rent­ly work­ing through the final stages of FAA approval.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

(Images: Archer Avi­a­tion)

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