MintAir and Jaunt Air Mobility Partner for South Korea Advanced Air Mobility Market

MintAir has signed with Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty to pur­chase up to 40 eVTOL air­craft, and will serve as Jaunt’s exclu­sive advanced air mobil­i­ty (AAM) part­ner in the Kore­an mar­ket.

Jaunt is approach­ing eVTOL design and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion util­is­ing slowed rotor com­pound (SRC) tech­nolo­gies and part­ner­ships with Tier 1 aero­space sup­pli­ers.

Jaunt CEO Mar­tin Peryea said: “The Jaunt Jour­ney air­craft design offers the safest air taxi con­fig­u­ra­tion that is oper­a­tional­ly effi­cient, qui­et, and sus­tain­able.”

Peryea has more than 40 years of com­mer­cial avi­a­tion expe­ri­ence cer­ti­fy­ing rotor­craft, while MintAir is build­ing an AAM ser­vice in the Repub­lic of Korea and will work with Jaunt to launch com­mer­cial pas­sen­ger air trans­porta­tion oper­a­tions in sev­er­al Kore­an mar­kets.

MintAir intends to launch AAM ser­vices with a par­tic­u­lar type of eVTOL design, elec­tric rotor­craft with a sin­gle main rotor like the Jaunt Jour­ney. Elec­tric rotor­craft pro­vide supe­ri­or safe­ty through autoro­ta­tion, ener­gy-sav­ing effi­cien­cy, low­er oper­at­ing costs, and a clear path to cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

MintAir CEO Eugene Choi added: “Our mis­sion is to devel­op the safest AAM ser­vice in both urban and rur­al envi­ron­ments and Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty is com­mit­ted to those same prin­ci­ples through­out the aircraft’s life­cy­cle so we are con­fi­dent the Jaunt Jour­ney will trans­port the pub­lic with the high­est lev­el of safe­ty.

Jaunt chief com­mer­cial offi­cer Simon Briceno con­tin­ued: “We are pleased to team with MintAir to bring this new form of advanced air trans­porta­tion to the Kore­an mar­kets.”

Jaunt pres­i­dent Eric Cote con­clud­ed: “Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty air­craft will be designed and man­u­fac­tured in Mon­tre­al, Cana­da, a glob­al exporter of aero­space and with cus­tomers like MintAir, we are devel­op­ing part­ner­ships world­wide.”

In June, Ver­tiko Mobil­i­ty and Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty signed a let­ter of intent to pur­chase more than 70 Jaunt Jour­ney air­craft and two hybrid air­craft, with an option for a fur­ther 25 units.

In April, Jaunt Air Mobil­i­ty award­ed a $100 mil­lion+ elec­tric air mobil­i­ty pro­gramme to L&T Tech­nol­o­gy Ser­vices (LTTS) to set up an Engi­neer­ing R&D Cen­tre encom­pass­ing struc­tur­al design, pow­er elec­tron­ics, flight con­trol sys­tems and man­u­fac­tur­ing engi­neer­ing.