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An air taxi in Paris for the 2024 Olympics? A project spinning heads
euronews (in English)
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22/09/2023
While the chosen aircraft and the first vertiport are ready, the project promoters still have to convince the authorities and regulators.
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Choosing the air rather than the road will soon be possible in Paris.
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An electric air taxi service is to be launched during the 2024 Olympic Games.
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But what will the trip actually look like?
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We visited Europe's first helipad, a test terminal near Paris.
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You will proceed to the check-in.
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So we need to verify that you are the right passenger arriving at the right time.
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Here is our small passenger lounge and about five minutes before the departure they will
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be asked to board the air taxi.
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Here again we've got a biometric gate and they are allowed to board.
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The concept is that people will be able to board from five vertiports around the French
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capital, one of them downtown on a barge floating on the Seine.
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But residents have yet to decide if they'll accept these electric machines, which are
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four times quieter than a helicopter.
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The new aviation mobility is the carbon-based aviation that is present today.
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It's an aviation that brings new uses, new uses, those that we think of, transport of
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people, transport of packages, of the emergency, the medical and then those that we don't think
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of yet.
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For the manufacturers, the German company hopes to rapidly obtain the European Aviation
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Safety Agency's green light.
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Our first priority today and what we are all looking forward to and all our resources
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are dedicated to, is the certification of the machine.
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So we aim for a reasonable, something that is deliverable, that will be able to really
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exist rather than doing things and promises that we will never be able to keep.
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Paris will be the first world capital to launch a flying taxi service.
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The project's carriers believe in it.
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They have less than a year before the Olympics to convince regulators and authorities.
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Cyril Forneuris, Euronews, Paris.
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