Varon Vehicles and Flapz announce collaboration to boost urban air mobility access in Latin America

Varon Vehi­cles and Flapz will work togeth­er to active­ly pro­mot­ing access of pas­sen­gers, guests and users to their Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ser­vices through­out dif­fer­ent mar­kets.

This part­ner­ship is focused on estab­lish­ing the “15-minute city” con­cept in the Latin Amer­i­can polit­i­cal, social, and eco­nom­ic agen­da, seek­ing to rev­o­lu­tionise how com­mu­ni­ties socialise while improv­ing qual­i­ty of life in the process and fos­ter­ing socio-eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment.

The pos­si­bil­i­ty of a mul­ti­modal trans­porta­tion infra­struc­ture, pow­ered by Varon Vehicle’s green eVTOL air­craft, has the poten­tial to rede­fine how urban plan­ning is exe­cut­ed in the region. Varon Vehi­cles is also devel­op­ing a new form of mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture com­posed of com­pa­ny ver­ti­ports, with vir­tu­al lanes over the low alti­tude city skies con­nect­ing them, and fleets of its eVTOL air­craft ser­vic­ing between them.

This new form of mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture will not have an asso­ci­at­ed cost per-mile, mak­ing it poten­tial­ly dis­rup­tive, espe­cial­ly in Latin Amer­i­ca where the lack of prop­er mobil­i­ty infra­struc­ture is preva­lent, ham­per­ing many aspects of eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment.

Felipe Varon, CEO and Founder of Varon Vehi­cles, said: “Our com­pa­ny will be pro­vid­ing trans­porta­tion ser­vices in diverse mar­kets, includ­ing logis­tics, med­ical, gov­ern­ment and oth­ers. We’re direct­ing our atten­tion first to the tourism mar­ket which offers a tremen­dous poten­tial in Latin Amer­i­ca and for which we already have tech­nolo­gies and air­craft avail­able to begin imple­men­ta­tion of our first oper­a­tions.

“We’re announc­ing our col­lab­o­ra­tion with Flapz as an excit­ing next step in our out­reach to cus­tomers as we move for­ward with imple­men­ta­tion of ser­vices in Colom­bia. Flapz has a fresh and inno­v­a­tive approach to avi­a­tion ser­vices and togeth­er we will work on draw­ing users for our upcom­ing ser­vices.”

Colom­bian — Israeli start­up Flapz is Latin America’s fastest-grow­ing pri­vate avi­a­tion mar­ket­place con­nect­ing pas­sen­gers with dozens of region­al cer­ti­fied oper­a­tors. Thanks to a dis­rup­tive tech­nol­o­gy that enables near-live book­ings, sub­scribers can search, com­pare, and book flights on more than 250 air­craft from heli­copters to busi­ness jets, as well as emp­ty legs and shared seats.

Flapz will play an instru­men­tal role in con­nect­ing Varon Vehi­cles’ Urban Air Mobil­i­ty ecosys­tem with its strate­gic group of users, who are active­ly involved in pri­vate avi­a­tion and with the key aspects sur­round­ing the expe­ri­ence, time-effi­cien­cy, and the over­all added val­ue of the eVTOL indus­try.

The com­pa­ny will serve as an active mar­ket­place in Latin Amer­i­ca for the net­work ran by Varon Vehi­cles, offer­ing seats for ini­tial flights and lead­ing the over­all com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion process from oper­a­tion start.

Ion­atan Galeano, cofounder and CEO of Flapz, added: “The way we move is chang­ing. Tech­nol­o­gy has deliv­ered the oppor­tu­ni­ty to com­plete­ly improve how trans­porta­tion infra­struc­ture is embed­ded in our cities and this is fas­ci­nat­ing.

“Being able to col­lab­o­rate with Varon Vehi­cles to dis­rupt how entire com­mu­ni­ties con­nect, with Flapz serv­ing as a one-stop mar­ket­place to access the world of Urban Air Mobil­i­ty, will be one of our main objec­tives in mov­ing for­ward on our quest to trans­form pri­vate avi­a­tion in Latin Amer­i­ca.”