Electric air taxis are expected to replace seaplanes carrying tourists to Saudi Arabia's Red Sea resorts from next year.
US-based Archer Aviation will start operating its Midnight electric air taxis to fly passengers to Red Sea Global resorts, its chief commercial officer has said.
The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) company signed a three-party agreement on Wednesday at the Dubai Airshow with the Public Investment Fund’s The Helicopter Company (THC) and Red Sea Global, the developer of luxury resorts on the kingdom’s west coast.
“This is going to be the very first agreement THC signs in this space, and it’s a really big deal for us,” Nikhil Goel told The National. “It unlocks our ability to begin deploying early aircraft at the Red Sea and launch the region’s first eVTOL testing site.”
The goal is to start flying to the Red Sea resorts “next year” and it will do so “as
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