Paris wants to jump-start its athletes and visitors to the Paris Olympics in 2024 by offering airborne taxis flying directly from the airport to the tournament venues. Passengers are at aarrival in the city of light currently often takes an hour-long train or bus ride into the city from Charles de Gaulle Airport north of Paris.

When Aeroports de Paris (ADP), Airbus and the regional RATP transport have their way, athletes can take to the skies again with the self-flying city taxi of the future, right after their planes have landed on the runway.

In order to realize VTOL, as the system should be called, in 2024, ADP collaborates with Airbus, which has been involved in complete urban mobility plans related to electric transport for several years. The manufacturer already has two prototypes, namely the one-person “Vahana” and the four-person variant “CityAirbus”.

The size of the air taxi market until 2040 is estimated at about $ 17 billion for the United States alone.

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