GlobeAir to purchase 12 Lilium Jets for its premium and business eVTOL flights in France and Italy

 Lil­i­um has announced a part­ner­ship with GlobeAir, which will include the pur­chase of 12 Lil­i­um Jets to pro­vide pre­mi­um and busi­ness eVTOL flights to its cus­tomer base in the French Riv­iera and Italy. 

The air­craft will com­ple­ment GlobeAir’s cur­rent offer­ings with a first and last mile ser­vice. Enabling con­sid­er­able time sav­ings for cus­tomers, the part­ner­ship will help exem­pli­fy the all-in-one trav­el expe­ri­ence GlobeAir spe­cialis­es in.

With high demand for a sus­tain­able, effi­cient and flex­i­ble mode of trans­port, Italy and south­ern France also offers many oppor­tu­ni­ties for point-to-point trav­els where trav­el time can be sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced, and ver­ti­cal land­ing is required.   

Sebastien Borel, SVP Com­mer­cial at Lil­i­um, said: “We are thrilled to be part­ner­ing with one of the lead­ing Euro­pean providers in on-demand air mobil­i­ty,  GlobeAir. The French Riv­iera and Italy are key mar­kets, and we are con­fi­dent that our shared com­mit­ment to inno­va­tion and part­ner­ship will result in a pre­mi­um cus­tomer expe­ri­ence.”   

GlobeAir is Europe’s lead­ing and award-win­ning pri­vate jet oper­a­tor offer­ing on demand char­ter ser­vices to over 900 air­ports. GlobeAir is renowned for its inno­v­a­tive lever­ag­ing of data ana­lyt­ics for the opti­mi­sa­tion of oper­a­tions, pric­ing and emp­ty legs to ben­e­fit its dis­cern­ing end cus­tomers.   

With more than 50 per cent of the mar­ket share, GlobeAir is Europe’s leader in the entry-lev­el pri­vate jet sec­tor, includ­ing a pre­mi­um expe­ri­ence. The com­pa­ny is avail­able 24/7 all over Europe with 21 pri­vate jets con­nect­ing Euro­pean cities like Lon­don, Gene­va, Zurich, Paris, Nice, and Milan with small air­fields that are dif­fi­cult to reach, such as St. Moritz or Lugano — both in Switzer­land.

Bern­hard Frag­n­er, CEO GlobeAir, added: “We are proud to be part­ner­ing with Lil­i­um as they are chang­ing how we think about avi­a­tion and rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing how peo­ple trav­el. Tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs, a for­ward-think­ing mind­set and a dri­ve to deliv­er qual­i­ty time that fits cus­tomer expec­ta­tions have pro­pelled Lil­i­um to the fore­front of next-gen­er­a­tion air trav­el.’’ 

This week, Lil­i­um also announced its Phoenix 2 Jet achieved full tran­si­tion from hov­er to wing-borne flight on both the wings and canards. The com­pa­ny says it is the first elec­tric jet air­craft in his­to­ry to achieve this, with the flight physics mod­els com­pu­ta­tion val­i­dat­ed. You can watch the lat­est video below.