EA Maven provides extensive analysis showing full potential of RAM and UAM across the UK

EA Maven has pre­sent­ed an exten­sive analy­sis which high­lights the poten­tial for region­al and urban air mobil­i­ty across the Unit­ed King­dom.

Lever­ag­ing their bespoke index­ing method­ol­o­gy and mobil­i­ty data, the com­pa­ny — which com­pris­es busi­ness part­ners Jarek Zych and Dar­rell Swan­son, iden­ti­fied the most viable routes for com­mer­cial avi­a­tion ser­vices, show­cas­ing sig­nif­i­cant eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits.

The pair show­cased their find­ings via a live pre­sen­tion on LinkedIn on July 18th, where they went into greater detail about the pos­si­ble routes once the emerg­ing mar­ket starts to open up. The full break­down is below:

Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty (RAM)

EA Maven’s analy­sis reveals 684 poten­tial routes from 63 com­mer­cial air­ports across the UK.

Key find­ings include:

Fleet Require­ments: 1.5k nine-seat equiv­a­lent air­craft.

Aver­age Sec­tor Length: 143 miles.

Tar­get Mar­ket: 430 mil­lion trav­ellers per annum, with 82.5% cur­rent­ly trav­el­ing by road
rep­re­sent­ing sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ties to decar­bonise sur­face trans­port.

Time Sav­ings: 47.2 mil­lion hours saved annu­al­ly, val­ued at £1.1 bil­lion through
increased pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.

Air­line Rev­enue Poten­tial: Over £2.8 bil­lion.

Car­bon Emis­sions Sav­ings:
o If using Jet A1: 214,000 tonnes saved.
o If using 100% SAF: 448,000 tonnes saved.
o Hydro­gen: 120,000 tonnes saved, requir­ing 42 mil­lion kg of hydro­gen need­ing 2,738 GWh of green ener­gy to pro­duce it.

Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM)

EA Maven iden­ti­fied 994 poten­tial­ly viable routes between 264 cities. Key find­ings include:

Fleet Require­ments: 2,200 eVTOLs.

Tar­get Mar­ket: 316 mil­lion trav­ellers annu­al­ly, with 75% cur­rent­ly trav­el­ing by car.

Time Sav­ings: 27.8 mil­lion hours saved annu­al­ly, val­ued at £615 mil­lion.

Rev­enue Poten­tial: Up to £2.2 bil­lion for eVTOL oper­a­tors and £595 mil­lion for ver­ti­port
oper­a­tors.

Infra­struc­ture Needs: 314 ver­ti­ports with 905 park­ing stands.

Car­bon Emis­sions Sav­ings: 178,000 tonnes, requir­ing 849 GWh of elec­tric­i­ty annu­al­ly.

Com­par­i­son and Eco­nom­ic Impact:

EA Maven’s find­ings demon­strate that Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty offers three times as many poten­tial routes com­pared to Urban Air Mobil­i­ty. The eco­nom­ic impact of RAM in terms of time sav­ings is eight times greater than that of UAM.

2035 Pro­jec­tions

EA Maven devel­oped a real­is­tic case for 2035, con­sid­er­ing poten­tial air­craft deploy­ments, oper­a­tor num­bers, and hub airports/cities for both UAM and RAM:

Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty (RAM)

• Sys­tem Con­fig­u­ra­tion: 23 air­ports with 70 routes.
• Fleet: 193 9‑seat equiv­a­lent air­craft.
• Oper­a­tors: 7, mov­ing 3.6 mil­lion pas­sen­gers annu­al­ly.
• Rev­enue: Over £300 mil­lion, with £143 mil­lion in addi­tion­al eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits from
  time sav­ings.
• Car­bon Sav­ings: 11.6k tonnes (using 22% blue and 78% grey hydro­gen).
• Employ­ment: 1,158 addi­tion­al pilots need­ed

Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM)

• Sys­tem Con­fig­u­ra­tion: 82 cities with 105 routes.
• Fleet: 356 4‑seat equiv­a­lent eVTOLs.
• Oper­a­tors: 7, mov­ing 5.4 mil­lion pas­sen­gers annu­al­ly.
• Rev­enue: Over £503 mil­lion, with £130 mil­lion in addi­tion­al eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits.
• Car­bon Sav­ings: 36,000 tonnes, requir­ing 177 GWh of elec­tric­i­ty.
• Employ­ment: 1,425 addi­tion­al pilots need­ed.

Con­clud­ing the report, the com­pa­ny said: “EA Maven’s analy­sis under­scores the vast poten­tial for advanced air mobil­i­ty in the UK, offer­ing sub­stan­tial eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits, sig­nif­i­cant time sav­ings, and con­sid­er­able reduc­tions in car­bon emis­sions over sur­face modes of trans­port.

“By har­ness­ing region­al and urban air mobil­i­ty, the UK can rev­o­lu­tion­ize its trans­porta­tion land­scape, mak­ing trav­el faster, more effi­cient, and envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able.”

Elec­tric Avi­a­tion Maven (EA Maven) is at the fore­front of advanced air mobil­i­ty solu­tions, ded­i­cat­ed to pio­neer­ing sus­tain­able and effi­cient avi­a­tion tech­nolo­gies. With a com­mit­ment to inno­va­tion and envi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship, the com­pa­ny focus­es on the key chal­lenges of AAM through the pro­vi­sion of AAM strat­e­gy sup­port, demand mod­el­ling, infra­struc­ture design and due dili­gence ser­vices.

You can down­load and read the full report here. For more infor­ma­tion, you can vis­it www.eamaven.com or con­tact Jarek (jarek.zych@eamaven.com) or Dar­rell (darrell@eamaven.com) via email.