Lilium Supports “NYC Economic Development Corps’ Decision on AAM”

Lil­i­um announced this week, it is sup­port­ing the New York City Eco­nom­ic Devel­op­ment Corporation’s (NYCEDC) deci­sion to accom­mo­date eVTOL oper­a­tions by choos­ing an agnos­tic heli­port oper­a­tor who will serve a wide range of air­craft and Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty (AAM) use cas­es at the Down­town Man­hat­tan Heli­port (DMH), reports a press release. 

The DMH, locat­ed near Bat­tery Park on Pier 6, along the East Riv­er, will play a key role in the planned future North­east Cor­ri­dor region­al net­work for poten­tial Lil­i­um Jet oper­a­tors. 

The release explains, “Recent­ly, NYCEDC closed their Request for Pro­pos­als’ (RFP) win­dow for firms with heli­port, air­port, ver­ti­port, logis­tics, or hub man­age­ment exper­tise, to oper­ate a future Down­town Man­hat­tan Heli­port in Low­er Man­hat­tan.”

It goes on, “NYCEDC will act as New York City’s admin­is­tra­tor in advanc­ing a con­ces­sion agree­ment. Lil­i­um has rela­tion­ships with var­i­ous infra­struc­ture part­ners glob­al­ly who are vying to oper­ate at this ver­ti­port, which the com­pa­ny believes will ensure com­pat­i­bil­i­ty for its Jet at the DMH.”  

Hav­ing an agnos­tic oper­a­tor for heli­ports or ver­ti­ports ensures those sites per­form at their full poten­tial by not restrict­ing usage to spe­cif­ic com­pa­nies, types of air­craft, indus­tries or hyper-com­pat­i­ble tech­nolo­gies.

Down­town Man­hat­tan Heli­port

Lilium’s planned com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion approach focus­es on being an OEM with after­mar­ket sup­port and ser­vices, while sell­ing to var­i­ous indi­vid­u­als and com­pa­nies for pri­vate, pre­mi­um and shut­tle oper­a­tions. 

Sebastien Borel, CCO at Lil­i­um, com­ment­ed,  “Our company’s go-to-mar­ket strat­e­gy allows for a diverse rev­enue stream and is pred­i­cat­ed on avi­a­tion facil­i­ties in the U.S, espe­cial­ly those owned by pub­lic enti­ties, being open to all types of air­craft.” He added, “YCEDC’s deci­sion to require a heli­port oper­a­tor that accom­mo­dates a wide range of air­craft sup­ports this approach.”

Lil­i­um has been a cham­pi­on for Region­al Air Mobil­i­ty (RAM), fur­ther­ing acces­si­ble and sus­tain­able trans­porta­tion beyond city lim­its. 

Borel con­tin­ued, “With New York City and the sur­round­ing area hav­ing a pop­u­la­tion of near­ly 20 mil­lion, we believe NYCEDC’s goal for range ver­sa­til­i­ty primes the city and sur­round­ing areas for robust eco­nom­ic poten­tial. In cre­at­ing con­nec­tiv­i­ty beyond the five bor­oughs, NYC can sup­port bring­ing time sav­ing and sus­tain­able ben­e­fits to busi­ness­es, res­i­dents and vis­i­tors alike.”

Sebastien Borel

The poten­tial of eVTOLs for New York is to cre­ate a sus­tain­able region­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty with the entire North­east Cor­ri­dor. Lil­i­um believes this promise can be achieved with its Jet, via a planned launch range that can reach Philadel­phia, Atlantic City and the Hamp­tons as well as, through bat­tery tech­nol­o­gy advance­ments, con­nect down­town NYC to Bal­ti­more, Boston, Martha’s Vine­yard and beyond. 

Lil­i­um aims to con­tin­ue work­ing with NYC offi­cials, poten­tial ver­ti­port admin­is­tra­tors and planned oper­a­tors of its Jet, to sup­port this project. The North­east Cor­ri­dor region­al net­work will form part of the com­pa­ny’s vision of bring­ing RAM to loca­tions across the globe. 

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(Top image: Lil­i­um Jet)

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