“Joby to Take Newly Acquired Blade’s Air Mobility Services to Uber App”

Joby Avi­a­tion announced this week it plans to take the new­ly acquired Blade’s Air Mobil­i­ty Ser­vices to the Uber App next year, reports a press release.

Joby acquired Blade’s pas­sen­ger busi­ness in August and intends to cap­i­talise on the exist­ing infra­struc­ture and decade long expe­ri­ence of deliv­er­ing ver­ti­cal air trav­el (heli­copters) at scale, to accel­er­ate Joby’s launch of its eVTOL ser­vice in mar­kets across the world. These will include Dubai, New York, Los Ange­les, the UK and Japan. 

JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby, com­ment­ed, “Inte­grat­ing Blade into the Uber App is the nat­ur­al next step in our glob­al part­ner­ship and will lay the foun­da­tion for the intro­duc­tion of our qui­et, zero-emis­sions air­craft in the years ahead.” Adding, “We’re excit­ed to intro­duce Uber cus­tomers to the mag­ic of seam­less urban air trav­el.”

Andrew Mac­don­ald, Pres­i­dent and COO of Uber, added, “Since our ear­li­est days, we’ve believed in the pow­er of advanced air mobil­i­ty to deliv­er safe, qui­et and sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion to cities around the world. By har­ness­ing the scale of the plat­form and part­ner­ing with Joby, we’re excit­ed to bring our cus­tomers the next gen­er­a­tion of trav­el.” 

Andrew Mac­don­ald

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

Blade’s air mobil­i­ty ser­vices are deliv­ered via a net­work of land­ing points, each with ded­i­cat­ed pas­sen­ger lounges. Once inte­grat­ed, cus­tomers will be able to book Blade flights direct­ly in the Uber app, enabling rapid and seam­less jour­neys in some of the most pop­u­lat­ed cities in the world. 

In 2024, Blade flew more than 50,000 pas­sen­gers across a net­work of routes in the New York met­ro­pol­i­tan area and South­ern Europe, includ­ing high-traf­fic des­ti­na­tions such as Newark Lib­er­ty Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, John F. Kennedy Inter­na­tion­al Air­port, Man­hat­tan and the Hamp­tons. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.jobyaviation.com

https://www.uber.com/us/en/elevate/vision

(Top image: Joby Aviation/Uber)

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