South Korea: Skyports Collaborates with Jeju Air “to Support Deployment of Vertiports”

UK-based Sky­ports Infra­struc­ture announced late last week, it is col­lab­o­rat­ing with Jeju Air, South Korea’s num­ber one low-cost air­line, to sup­port the deploy­ment of ver­ti­ports in the coun­try for air taxi oper­a­tions, reports a press release. 

The agree­ment, for­malised dur­ing a sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny at Korea’s Gim­po City, will com­bine Sky­ports and Jeju Air’s exper­tise and expe­ri­ence with­in the avi­a­tion indus­try to facil­i­tate a ver­ti­port net­work devel­op­ment. “The part­ners,” says the release “are to engage with key gov­ern­ment, reg­u­la­to­ry and indus­try stake­hold­ers to iden­ti­fy require­ments, oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with launch­ing ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture and air taxi oper­a­tions.”

The two com­pa­nies will define a net­work devel­op­ment strat­e­gy focused on major met­ro­pol­i­tan areas includ­ing Jeju Island. “This is to be fol­lowed by due dili­gence exer­cis­es,” con­tin­ues the release “for pri­or­i­ty sites with­in each of the net­works in prepa­ra­tion for com­mer­cial launch.”

Yun Yuan Tay, Head of Asia-Pacif­ic region at Sky­ports, com­ment­ed, “Korea is an impor­tant mar­ket for the air mobil­i­ty indus­try and since launch­ing in 2023 in the coun­try, we’ve been work­ing exten­sive­ly with local part­ners to explore and devel­op oppor­tu­ni­ties for indus­try growth.” Adding, “Our part­ner­ship with Jeju Air brings new exper­tise and local con­nec­tions.”

Sky­ports Drone Fly­ing Over Jeju Island

The two com­pa­nies will also explore the com­mer­cial case for Kore­an air taxi ser­vices. A key out­put of the agree­ment will be the pro­duc­tion of an action­able busi­ness strat­e­gy for the devel­op­ment and oper­a­tion of AAM infra­struc­ture.

Park Tae-ha, Head of Jeju Air’s UAM Busi­ness Task Force, remarked, “Through coop­er­a­tion with Sky­ports, we will estab­lish busi­ness mod­els suit­able for the Kore­an envi­ron­ment and cre­ate a stan­dard­ised ser­vice sys­tem that can be imme­di­ate­ly utilised in the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion phase of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty.”

Jeju Air oper­ates 42 air­craft and flies to 47 dif­fer­ent loca­tions through­out Korea. The com­pa­ny aims to pro­vide “total air mobil­i­ty ser­vice” to cus­tomers through emerg­ing air­line ser­vices in con­junc­tion with urban air mobil­i­ty.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://skyports.net/

https://www.jejuair.net/en/main/base/index.do

(Top image: Sun Yuan Tay, Park Tae-ha sign­ing the agree­ment)

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