Paris Sets Up Flying Taxi Pick-up And Drop-off Points For 2024 Summer Olympics

Paris, France will be the host city of the 2024 Summer Olympics. Aeroports de Paris, the company responsible for operating the local airport, recently announced that it has teamed up with the British company Skyports to set up the world's first flying taxi pick-up and drop-off point at Pontoise Cormeilles Airport on the outskirts of Paris. A series of tests, the goal is to be officially put into service before the Olympic Games.

Aeroports de Paris has chosen the pure electric vertical lift aircraft developed by the German company Volocopter.

They are currently planning two routes for the Olympics, the first is from Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget airports to the center of Paris, and the other is from Saint-Cyr airport near Versailles to the city center; The taxi will be lifted and lowered vertically on an exclusive barge on the Seine.

The flying taxi service will be integrated with traditional air traffic when it is launched. Dirk Hoke, head of Aeroports de Paris, expressed confidence in the project itself, and the biggest difficulty is to obtain the permission issued by the relevant authorities in the second quarter of 2024, before the Olympic Games, but this time the project has also obtained the RATP, the group responsible for public transport in Paris., the flight regulator DGAC and the Department of Transportation, etc.