LYTE Aviation to work with LYNEports and Bluenest by Globalvia on vertiport infrastructure in Middle East region

LYTE Avi­a­tion will work with LYNEports and Bluen­est by Glob­alvia to enhance ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture in the Mid­dle East.

As part of a new part­ner­ship announced today (Thurs­day), it builds on LYTE’s suc­cess­ful receipt of 23 pre-orders worth €920 mil­lion for its inno­v­a­tive Sky­Bus air­craft and car­go vari­ant — the SkyTruck.

As the Mid­dle East accel­er­ates its vision for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty, LYTE is strate­gi­cal­ly align­ing its efforts with Oman’s Vision 2040 and UAE’s ini­tia­tives to devel­op the region’s future in sus­tain­able trans­port.

Fresh­ta Farzam, CEO of LYTE Avi­a­tion, said: “We are cur­rent­ly engaged in dis­cus­sions with sev­er­al gov­ern­ments around the globe and col­lab­o­rat­ing with esteemed man­u­fac­tur­ing part­ners and investors. The Mid­dle East rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ty for our Sky­Bus and SkyTruck, designed for region­al ranges of up to 1000 km, facil­i­tat­ing inter­con­nec­tiv­i­ty for mass pas­sen­ger trans­port and net-zero car­go solu­tions.

“The UAE is advanc­ing at a high speed with their plans for smart cities by using also two-seater air taxis and we see this as a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for us to also add our larg­er 40-seater Sky­Bus­es at the seat price of $39 to the matrix.

“Same goes for Oman’s future vision 2040, our SkyTruck will enable net zero achieve­ments in their logis­tics sec­tor and allow their pop­u­la­tion to trav­el quick­er and cheap­er from point to point instead of two-hour car jour­neys, to take our Sky­Bus and reach their des­ti­na­tion with­in 30 min­utes.

“This is an absolute game chang­er for the hos­pi­tal­i­ty and tourism indus­try, for gov­ern­ment employ­ees, for pas­sen­ger mass tran­sit in gen­er­al and for car­go deliv­er­ies from door to door, like it has nev­er been done before.”

LYNEports, known for its Aero­drome Plan­ning and Design Soft­ware, focus­es on cre­at­ing effi­cient air trav­el infra­struc­tures, while Bluen­est Ver­ti­port, an inno­va­tion arm of Glob­alvia, aims to man­age ver­ti­ports and advanced air mobil­i­ty solu­tions, plac­ing cit­i­zens at the cen­ter of their oper­a­tions.

Through this part­ner­ship, LYTE aims to sup­port infra­struc­ture which sup­ports the Sky­Bus and SkyTruck, but also catal­y­ses the ecosys­tem for air logis­tics and auto­mat­ed ser­vices with Unmanned Air­craft Sys­tems (UAS).

Rasha Alsha­mi, CEO and Founder of LYNEports, said: “LYTE Aviation’s ambi­tions align per­fect­ly with our goal of design­ing and opti­miz­ing aero­dromes that sup­port emerg­ing air mobil­i­ty solu­tions. Our col­lab­o­ra­tion promis­es to cre­ate a sus­tain­able infra­struc­ture frame­work that will advance the region’s trans­porta­tion land­scape.

“Our soft­ware includes pre-inte­grat­ed work­flows that allow plan­ners and author­i­ties to design aero­dromes with ded­i­cat­ed hydro­gen fuel cell infra­struc­ture and clear zon­ing buffers. This is a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for us to join forces here and co-cre­ate advanced infra­struc­ture with Bluen­est by Glob­alvia and LYTE Avi­a­tion”

José Igna­cio Rodriguez, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Bluen­est by Glob­alvia, added: “We are com­mit­ted to rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing the way com­mu­ni­ties inter­act with advanced air mobil­i­ty. Part­ner­ing with LYTE allows us to lever­age inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy, ensur­ing that ver­ti­ports are not just infra­struc­ture, but key enablers of a com­fort­able and effi­cient trans­port sys­tem for all cit­i­zens and car­go.

”Bluen­est has designed over 30 types of ver­ti­ports, includ­ing large-scale ver­ti­ports for eVTOLs with sizes rang­ing from 12m to 30m, equipped with elec­tri­cal recharg­ing capa­bil­i­ties, includ­ing hydro­gen fuel cells.

“We can effort­less­ly scale up our medi­um sized ver­ti­ports to accom­mo­date larg­er eVTOLs designed for heavy car­go or pas­sen­gers, by resiz­ing the FATO, parking/recharge and ter­mi­nal areas. This col­lab­o­ra­tion presents a sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ty with LYTE Aviation’s Sky­Bus and SkyTruck and lay the prop­er infra­struc­ture for them in the future, start­ing with the Mid­dle East“.