Jaunt Canada president Eric Côté joins Aéro Montréal board

Eric Côté, pres­i­dent of Jaunt Cana­da, was recent­ly elect­ed a mem­ber of Aéro Montréal’s board. Aéro Mon­tréal is posi­tion­ing Que­bec as a cen­tre for advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) to facil­i­tate and pro­vide exper­tise, sup­port, and end-to-end val­ue chain activ­i­ties from research & col­lab­o­ra­tive inno­va­tion, invest­ment & financ­ing ser­vices, design, pro­to­typ­ing, test­ing, cer­ti­fi­ca­tion, man­u­fac­tur­ing, sales, infra­struc­ture & oper­a­tions, to MRO and sus­tain­able end of vehi­cle life ser­vices.

“It is an hon­our to join Aéro Mon­tréal’s board and con­tribute to bring­ing AAM to Que­bec and the world,” says Côté. “At Jaunt, we have com­mit­ted to design­ing, build­ing, and cer­ti­fy­ing the Jaunt Jour­ney in Cana­da due to the sup­port of organ­i­sa­tions like Aéro Mon­tre­al, the gov­ern­ment, and access to a strong avi­a­tion com­mu­ni­ty.”

Aéro Mon­tréal pres­i­dent Mélanie Lussier added: “We have assem­bled an incred­i­ble pool of exper­tise to realise our vision of build­ing Que­bec’s rep­u­ta­tion as a cen­tre of excel­lence in AAM. Eric’s glob­al busi­ness expe­ri­ence and the com­pa­ny’s mis­sion to devel­op an eVTOL here make him a very valu­able asset.”

Aéro Mon­tréal, Que­bec’s aero­space clus­ter, is a strate­gic think tank cre­at­ed in 2006 that groups all the major deci­sion mak­ers in Que­bec’s aero­space sec­tor, includ­ing com­pa­nies, edu­ca­tion­al and research insti­tu­tions, asso­ci­a­tions, and unions. Aéro Mon­tréal aims to fos­ter the growth and expan­sion of the clus­ter to ensure that it may con­tin­ue to cre­ate wealth for Mon­tre­al, Que­bec, and Cana­da.

Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty’s air­craft, the Jaunt Jour­ney, will be fea­tured by Aéro Mon­tre­al at the Paris Air Show as a part of the Cana­di­an Pavil­ion. Eric Côté and Simon Briceno, Jaun­t’s Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, will be on hand to talk about Jaun­t’s pro­pri­etary Slowed Rotor Com­pound tech­nol­o­gy and its unique safe­ty fea­tures.

Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty leads the elec­tric air mobil­i­ty divi­sion for the AIRO Group, which recent­ly entered an agree­ment and plan of merg­er with Ker­nel Group Hold­ings to list on the Nas­daq.

In April, Red­wings signed with Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty to pur­chase ten eVTOLs in Mex­i­co, with an option to pur­chase ten addi­tion­al units, with plans to sup­port Red­wings’ launch of an air taxi ser­vice in urban mar­kets, start­ing with Mex­i­co City.

Red­wings to pur­chase ten Jaunt Air eVTOLs for Mex­i­co City air taxi ser­vice