Eve and Corporación América Airports plan Urban Air Mobility in Europe and Latin America

Eve Holdin­gand Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports, which claims to be the largest pri­vate-sec­tor air­port con­ces­sion oper­a­tor in the world by num­ber of air­ports, have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing to design and inte­grate a ser­vice and sup­port ecosys­tem for Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) in Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca.

They will com­bine their exper­tise to assess the mar­ket readi­ness of the ground infra­struc­ture for eVTOL oper­a­tions at air­ports, includ­ing stud­ies of the reg­u­la­to­ry envi­ron­ment.

Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports CEO Mar­tin Eurnekian said: “The next five years will prob­a­bly be deci­sive in how we move from and through cities, and avi­a­tion will play a lead­ing role again.

“Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports has always been at the fore­front of air trans­port ser­vices and now wants to be a key play­er in the UAM seg­ment, iden­ti­fy­ing the chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties for bet­ter oper­a­tional, infra­struc­tur­al and secure con­texts.”

Eve co-CEO Andre Stein added: “The Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem includes ground infra­struc­ture and oper­a­tions, air­ports, and inte­gra­tion of dif­fer­ent trans­porta­tion modes.

“The part­ner­ship with Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports will allow us to cre­ate and imple­ment these con­cepts, in line with reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ties’ require­ments, in dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties in Latin Amer­i­ca and Europe sup­port­ed by Cor­po­ración Améri­ca Air­ports. Our ded­i­ca­tion to enabling a glob­al UAM ecosys­tem makes Eve a trust­ed part­ner in this col­lab­o­ra­tion,”.

This part­ner­ship rein­forces both com­pa­nies’ com­mit­ment to safe­ly pro­vid­ing more reli­able, afford­able, sus­tain­able, inte­grat­ed and human-cen­tric UAM solu­tions.

Last month, Eve Hold­ing, for­mer­ly known as Zan­ite, announced a busi­ness com­bi­na­tion with Eve UAM, a sub­sidiary of Embraer, when Zan­ite changed its name to Eve Hold­ing and its secu­ri­ties vol­un­tar­i­ly delist­ed from the Nas­daq, with its com­mon stock to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the sym­bols “EVEX and “EVEXW”.

Ear­li­er in May, Eve Urban Air Mobil­i­ty pub­lished the first Con­cept of Oper­a­tions (CONOPS) doc­u­ment for the future Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) mar­ket in Rio de Janeiro.

The CONOPS includ­ed stud­ies on aspects that impact the UAM ecosys­tem, dis­cus­sion groups involv­ing the main pil­lars for its devel­op­ment, and a peri­od of flight oper­a­tions per­formed in Novem­ber 2021 between Bar­ra da Tiju­ca neigh­bour­hood and RIO­galeão Inter­na­tion­al Air­port that sim­u­lat­ed the UAM ecosys­tem with a heli­copter.