Italy

Airbus partners with ITA Airways to create urban air mobility services in Italy using eVTOL aircraft

Jason Pritchard27 April 2022

Airbus and ITA Airways have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on urban air mobility (UAM) in Italy. The two companies will explore the creation of tailored UAM services, by identifying strategic use cases for emission-free mobility...

Volocopter, Atlantia and Aeroporti di Roma partner up to help bring electric air taxis to Italy’s capital city as early as 2023

Jason Pritchard28 October 2021

Volocopter, the infrastructures’ holding company Atlantia and Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), the largest airport operator in Italy, have announced their partnership to bring electric air taxis to Rome. This will include a new service that will connect ...

SEA Milan Airports and Skyports to investigate potential deployment of landing vertiports across Italy

Jason Pritchard22 October 2021

Skyports and SEA Milan Airports, one of the main airport operators in Europe, have signed a partnership agreement to investigate the development and operation of a network of landing vertiports across Italy. Starting with Milan, where SEA ma...

D3 Technologies and Walle Mobility to set out roadmap for urban air mobility in Italy by designing concept of operations

Jason Pritchard27 September 2021

D3 Technologies has agreed to collaborate with Walle Mobility in exploring opportunities for Urban Air Mobility in Italy. The company is developing a digital, fail-safe air management system that enables Advanced Air Mobility to scale. It organi...

Airio to develop flightpath navigation system for Walle Mobility’s first eVTOL aircraft services in Italy

Jason Pritchard1 April 2021

Airio will develop intelligent flight paths for the first eVTOL aircraft services in Italy, as part of a new partnership with Walle Mobility. This will be done using Airio's Intelligent Flightpath Navigation System, which consists of sophisticate...

Q&A: EHang and Giancarlo Zema Design Group to develop eco-sustainable vertiport, first one could be built in Italy

Jason Pritchard23 March 2021

EHang has partnered with Italian architecture firm Giancarlo Zema Design Group (GZDG) to create the world's first fully eco-sustainable vertiport, which will be able to recharge its two-seater eVTOL aircraft. Inspired by the native African Baobab...

SkyGate project plans to build Italy’s first vertiport in Turin as part of new advanced air mobility ecosystem

Jason Pritchard12 February 2021

A groundbreaking project has been launched in Turin, Italy, which aims to offer a complete ecosystem dedicated to advanced air mobility (AAM) services. Notable goals include building a network of vertiports for eVTOL aircraft and opening an academy ...

Q&A: Walle Mobility and Jaunt Air Mobility to develop first urban air mobility routes in Italy as part of new partnership

Jason Pritchard15 January 2021

Following the announcement that Walle Mobility and Jaunt Air Mobility are to team up and work together on developing the first urban air mobility services in Italy, we spoke to Marco Pugliese, Chief Operating Officer at Walle Mobility, and Simon Bri...