PLANA and Bluenest partner at Paris Air Show 2023

South Kore­an hybrid AAM air­craft devel­op­er PLANA and Glob­alvia Bluen­est, a pio­neer of ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture, have announced a strate­gic part­ner­ship at the Paris Air Show 2023 that aims to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment and com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion of AAM and ver­ti­port ser­vices and infra­struc­ture.

PLANA is devel­op­ing CP-01, a hybrid-based AAM eVTOL air­craft that can oper­ate up to 500 km dis­tances and off­shore. The CP-01 is designed to offer fast, safe, and sus­tain­able mobil­i­ty solu­tions for appli­ca­tions such as pas­sen­ger trans­port, car­go deliv­ery, emer­gency response, and tourism.

Bluen­est is a sub­sidiary of Glob­alvia, a multi­na­tion­al trans­porta­tion infra­struc­ture and ser­vices com­pa­ny with oper­a­tions in 11 coun­tries across three con­ti­nents. Bluen­est is build­ing ver­ti­ports, elec­tric ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing (eVTOL) facil­i­ties for air taxis and drones, to con­nect cities, places, and peo­ple. Ver­ti­ports are expect­ed to reduce con­ges­tion, pol­lu­tion, and trav­el time in urban areas.

The com­pa­nies will col­lab­o­rate on infor­ma­tion shar­ing, hybrid eVTOL ver­ti­port design, and busi­ness mod­el devel­op­ment. The part­ner­ship will enhance the com­mer­cial val­ue and cus­tomer sat­is­fac­tion of both com­pa­nies.

“Our part­ner­ship with PLANA is an impor­tant mile­stone in expand­ing the util­i­ty of our ver­ti­port from short to medi­um to long haul and off­shore flights,” said Jose Rodriguez, CEO of Bluen­est.

“Togeth­er, we look for­ward to accel­er­at­ing the com­mer­cial­iza­tion of the AAM indus­try, includ­ing AAM air­craft and ver­ti­ports.”

PLANA CEO Braden Kim said: “This part­ner­ship is sig­nif­i­cant because it allows us to val­i­date our tech­nol­o­gy capa­bil­i­ties and expand our busi­ness mod­el and ecosys­tem. We look for­ward to syn­er­giz­ing our tech­nolo­gies and know-how to expand the AAM mar­ket.”

Bluen­est designs and oper­ates both ver­ti­ports and logis­tics lock­ers that will con­nect the new air routes with mobil­i­ty on the ground, guar­an­tee­ing safe and effi­cient oper­a­tions for all the par­tic­i­pants in this new ecosys­tem.

In April, PLANA announced that it won the Pro­fes­sion­al Con­cept cat­e­go­ry of the iF Design Awards, which are held annu­al­ly in Ger­many and are con­sid­ered one of the top three design awards glob­al­ly, along­side the Red Dot Design Award and IDEA.

PLANA wins iF design award 2023