Downtown Skyport in NYC welcomes multiple point-to-point eVTOL flights during Joby Aviation’s ‘2026 Electric Skies Tour’ Flight Campaign

Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture suc­cess­ful­ly wel­comed mul­ti­ple point-to-point eVTOL flights to Down­town Sky­port dur­ing Joby’s “2026 Elec­tric Skies Tour” New York City Flight Cam­paign, which took place between April 23^rd-May 1^st 2026.

Over the course of the week-long flight pro­gram, Down­town Sky­port received five flights, also act­ing as the key loca­tion where Joby man­aged air­craft oper­a­tions and charg­ing in Man­hat­tan.

Down­town Sky­port played a cen­tral role with­in the flight cam­paign as it is the only com­mer­cial ver­ti­cal avi­a­tion facil­i­ty in Man­hat­tan that can cur­rent­ly han­dle eVTOL charg­ing.

Addi­son Fer­rell, Direc­tor of Infra­struc­ture, Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture, said: “These land­ings demon­strate how eVTOL flights can already be sup­port­ed by the infra­struc­ture at Down­town Sky­port and be seam­less­ly inte­grat­ed into our exist­ing oper­a­tions.

“With plans already well under­way for fit­ting per­ma­nent rapid charg­ing, we’re mak­ing strong progress in enabling the facil­i­ty for per­ma­nent, com­mer­cial eVTOL oper­a­tions, which will give New York­ers access to a crit­i­cal node in the NYC net­work.”

Dur­ing the flight cam­paign Joby flew routes between John F. Kennedy Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (JFK), Down­town Sky­port, and the West 30th Street and East 34th Street Heli­ports. Togeth­er, these sites trace some of the com­mer­cial routes Joby envi­sions for New York, con­nect­ing Low­er Man­hat­tan and Mid­town to JFK in under 10 min­utes.

April 28^th also marked a key date with Joby host­ing an event at Down­town Sky­port that brought togeth­er gov­ern­ment and local stake­hold­ers to wit­ness flight demon­stra­tions. Fol­low­ing a point-to-point flight from JFK to Down­town Sky­port, Joby demon­strat­ed the aircraft’s capa­bil­i­ty for ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing, along­side its qui­et noise pro­file.

The land­ings at Down­town Sky­port are a key momen­tum mile­stone as Sky­ports looks to tran­si­tion the facil­i­ty to become a hybrid ver­ti­cal avi­a­tion facil­i­ty for both eVTOLs and heli­copters.

Upon tak­ing the con­ces­sion to oper­ate Down­town Sky­port from New York City Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (NYCEDC), a core con­trac­tu­al com­mit­ment was to make the facil­i­ty Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) ready. By tak­ing mul­ti­ple land­ings over the week, and facil­i­tat­ing eVTOL charg­ing, Sky­ports was able to demon­strate Down­town Skyport’s path to AAM oper­a­tional readi­ness.

Down­town Sky­port is already in advanced plan­ning stages for fit­ting per­ma­nent rapid charg­ing, which is track­ing to be ful­ly func­tion­al in 2027.

JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby, said: “New York has always been a city that defines the future by demand­ing bet­ter. We first flew here in 2023, and now we’ve shown what the next chap­ter looks like: a qui­et, zero oper­at­ing emis­sions air taxi ser­vice designed to bet­ter serve New York­ers.

“Last week, fly­ing between JFK and Man­hat­tan, we showed what the White House-backed eIPP ini­tia­tive makes pos­si­ble and offered New York a look at what’s com­ing.“