Eve and Falcon Aviation Services partner to introduce eVTOL flights in Dubai

Eve Hold­ing and Fal­con Avi­a­tion Ser­vices, a lead­ing Busi­ness Avi­a­tion Ser­vices oper­a­tor in the Mid­dle East and North Africa (MENA) region, have signed a let­ter of intent for up to 35 eVTOL air­craft, with deliv­er­ies expect­ed to start in 2026

The part­ner­ship will intro­duce the first eVTOL tourist flights from the Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, work­ing with the local stake­hold­ers and author­i­ties to sup­port Urban Air Mobil­i­ty (UAM) for the UAE.

Fal­con chief oper­at­ing offi­cer Cap­tain Raman­deep Oberoi said: “We are part­ner­ing with Eve to be the first oper­a­tor of eVTOL in Dubai and the MENA region.

“Fal­con is active­ly engaged in Urban Air Mobil­i­ty and com­mit­ted to deliv­er­ing new sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion and we are par­tic­u­lar­ly proud to take a new step in the UAE in a project that will rev­o­lu­tionise sus­tain­able urban mobil­i­ty.”

Co-CEO of Eve Andre Stein said; “We are thrilled to part­ner with Fal­con to enable future urban mobil­i­ty in the UAE and launch eVTOL flights in Dubai. This will help to posi­tion Dubai as a leader in the urban air mobil­i­ty mar­ket, with Eve’s glob­al expe­ri­ence.”

Mean­while, Eve has also part­nered with Porsche Con­sult­ing to define an eVTOL glob­al man­u­fac­tur­ing, logis­tics and sup­ply chain strat­e­gy.

The com­pa­nies will com­bine their aero­nau­ti­cal and auto­mo­tive exper­tise to sup­port Eve’s imple­men­ta­tion plan, with a mas­ter ser­vices agree­ment that includes stud­ies on indus­tri­al oper­a­tion, logis­tics, sup­ply chain and parts dis­tri­b­u­tion.

The study will address scal­a­bil­i­ty and dis­trib­uted pro­duc­tion, while dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion gen­er­ates new pos­si­bil­i­ties for more agile tech­nolo­gies focussed on busi­ness and sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals.

Andre Stein added: “We are pleased to work with a leader in the indus­try that can sup­port us with strate­gic deci­sion mak­ing in a UAM ecosys­tem that is quick­ly evolv­ing, and I look for­ward to see­ing the new oppor­tu­ni­ties ahead.”

Porsche Con­sult­ing CEO Rudy Leutz said: “We are proud of our new part­ner­ship with Eve, because we have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to shape the future of mobil­i­ty togeth­er.

“We share the same val­ues, and with indus­try-lead­ing know-how, we will be able to ques­tion and chal­lenge all exist­ing con­cepts for logis­tics and man­u­fac­tur­ing.”

Last month, Embraer con­clud­ed exper­i­men­tal flights in Rio de Janeiro de Janeiro focussed on eval­u­at­ing new autonomous sys­tem tech­nolo­gies in real flight con­di­tions, and worked with Eve UAM and oth­er part­ners, dur­ing which time they explored sce­nar­ios for take-off, climb, cruise, approach, and land­ing flight phas­es.

At the same time, Eve Hold­ing, for­mer­ly known as Zan­ite, announced a busi­ness com­bi­na­tion with Eve UAM, a sub­sidiary of Embraer.