Poised on the cusp of aviation explosion, India is now looking at transitioning into electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) advanced air mobility (AAM) operations to address its regional and urban mobility issues.
“The eVTOL future is not as far as it seems – by 2025, this global dream will come true and India will be a pioneer…,” Rajiv Bansal, Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, declared, addressing a conference on advanced and short-haul air mobility here in Bengaluru.
Presently India has 89 airports with commercial scheduled services, with 558 domestic routes in service. But according to a study presented by Darrell Swanson, co-founder of EA Maven and a former advisor at NASA, the country has the potential for 3900 domestic routes between these airports, only a fraction of which are currently served by traditional aviation.
