Joby Aviation Debuts Uber Air and How Users Will Be Able To Book its Electric Air Taxi via App

Joby Avi­a­tion has intro­duced Uber Air, giv­ing users a first look at how they’ll be able to book the com­pa­ny’s elec­tric air taxi direct­ly in the Uber app.

Joby expects to car­ry its first pas­sen­gers lat­er this year in Dubai, which will mark a major mile­stone for the Joby-Uber part­ner­ship to bring mul­ti-modal trans­porta­tio to cities around the world.

Sachin Kansal, Chief Prod­uct Offi­cer at Uber, said: “We’ve long believed in the pow­er of advanced air mobil­i­ty to trans­form how peo­ple move through cities.

“With Uber Air, rid­ers will be able to book Joby’s elec­tric air taxi through a sim­ple and famil­iar, one-tap expe­ri­ence on Uber, seam­less­ly con­nect­ing every leg of their jour­ney – mak­ing ground-to-sky trav­el even more effort­less.” 

Here’s what Uber rid­ers can expect: 

• One-tap book­ing: To expe­ri­ence the future of flight on a Joby air­craft, rid­ers will sim­ply open the Uber app and enter their des­ti­na­tion in the “Where to?” bar. If their trip qual­i­fies, Uber Air pow­ered by Joby will appear as an option. With a sin­gle tap, the app seam­less­ly con­nects and books every leg of the jour­ney – includ­ing Uber Black pick­up and drop-off

• Joby flight expe­ri­ence: Joby’s all-elec­tric air taxi is being designed for up to four pas­sen­gers, with com­fort­able seat­ing, fea­tur­ing large win­dows with panoram­ic views of the city below from every seat. Flown by a cer­ti­fied com­mer­cial pilot, it offers a remark­able way to trav­el above the city and expe­ri­ence the next gen­er­a­tion of flight

• Air­craft details: Joby’s air­craft uses six tilt­ing pro­pellers to take off ver­ti­cal­ly before tran­si­tion­ing into for­ward flight. It can trav­el at speeds of up to 200 mph, and has a range of up to 100 miles on a sin­gle charge.

• Designed for cities: It is engi­neered with mul­ti­ple lev­els of redun­dan­cies to enhance safe­ty and designed for urban inte­gra­tion, fea­tur­ing an acoustic pro­file that is qui­et enough to blend into the ambi­ent sounds of a city’s streets

• Path to US flights: Before launch­ing com­mer­cial oper­a­tions in the Unit­ed States, the Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (FAA), requires exten­sive test­ing and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. Joby has already com­plet­ed more than 50,000 miles of flight tests across its fleet and has begun the final stage of this cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process, reflect­ing its safe­ty-focused approach and steady progress toward car­ry­ing pas­sen­gers

Eric Alli­son, Chief Prod­uct Offi­cer at Joby, said: “We set out to build a new lay­er of urban trans­porta­tion. Our focus has always been on cre­at­ing a flight expe­ri­ence that oper­ates qui­et­ly and inte­grates nat­u­ral­ly into the rhythm of city life.

“By part­ner­ing with Uber, we’re mak­ing this new mode of trans­porta­tion famil­iar and acces­si­ble, con­nect­ing the ground and the sky through a sys­tem designed to save peo­ple time and fit seam­less­ly into how they already move.”

Joby and Uber have been work­ing togeth­er to deliv­er the future of urban air mobil­i­ty since 2019. In 2021, Joby acquired Uber’s Ele­vate divi­sion which played a piv­otal role in estab­lish­ing the urban air mobil­i­ty sec­tor and devel­op­ing the tools required for mar­ket selec­tion, demand sim­u­la­tion and mul­ti-modal oper­a­tions.

Last year, Uber and Joby announced plans to bring Blade’s com­mer­cial heli­copter ser­vice to the Uber app in 2026, fol­low­ing Joby’s acqui­si­tion of Blade’s pas­sen­ger busi­ness.

The part­ner­ship will help pave the way for Joby’s elec­tric air taxi ser­vice, once approved, to expand to mar­kets around the world, includ­ing cities such as Dubai, New York and Los Ange­les, and coun­tries such as the Unit­ed King­dom and Japan.