PLANA to supply 30 hybrid aircraft to Hi-Air

PLANA today announced an order from South Kore­an com­mer­cial air car­ri­er Hi-Air to sup­ply 30 AAM CP-01 hybrid-elec­tric AAM air­craft from 2030, the first 10 to be deliv­ered in 2031.

Hi-Air is South Korea’s lead­ing air oper­a­tor licence hold­er for small-scale air trans­port ser­vices. The com­pa­ny was found­ed in 2019 and start­ed oper­a­tions from Ulsan Air­port. Hi-Air cur­rent­ly oper­ates flights to Gim­po, Muan, Sun­cheon, and Jeju.

In 2022, Hi-Air became the first com­mer­cial air car­ri­er in South Korea to reach 500,000 cumu­la­tive pas­sen­gers. The com­pa­ny recent­ly launched a new route between Muan and Kitakyushu, Japan.

PLANA and Hi-Air will joint­ly devel­op busi­ness mod­els for pas­sen­ger and car­go trans­porta­tion to cre­ate syn­er­gies by lever­ag­ing their respec­tive exper­tise in air­craft oper­a­tion and devel­op­ment.

“We are excit­ed to part­ner with Hi-Air, a lead­ing small-scale air oper­a­tor in South Korea,” said Jin­mo Lee, CPO of PLANA. “This part­ner­ship will help us to strength­en our posi­tion in the AAM mar­ket and con­tribute to the devel­op­ment of the South Kore­an air mobil­i­ty indus­try.”

“We are con­fi­dent that this part­ner­ship will help us pio­neer a new era of air mobil­i­ty in South Korea,” said Joseph Kim, CEO of Hi-Air. “We will com­bine PLANA’s tech­nol­o­gy and Hi-Air’s exper­tise to cre­ate a new air mobil­i­ty mar­ket.”

PLANA also has orders since last year with Ghenus Air in the Unit­ed States and Sky­Taxi in Japan to sup­ply 20 and 50 air­craft respec­tive­ly.

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