A new type of air terminal opens for flying taxis

A new type of air terminal opens for flying taxis
"Evtols" such as the VoloCity rely on electrically driven rotors to take off and land vertically. (Image: Getty)
The Economist
As the morning mist slowly clears over Pontoise-Cormeilles, a regional airport 40km north-west of central Paris, it is time to check in at the "vertiport". This is the name the aviation industry has adopted to describe a new type of air terminal. Vertiports will be used by evtols, or flying taxis as they are sometimes called. As the name indicates, these aircraft take off and land vertically, like helicopters. But instead of being powered by jet turbines, they rely on sets of electrically driven rotors, much like hovering drones....

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Staff reporters 01 Apr 2025