{"id":641954,"date":"2024-04-20T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T06:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=641954"},"modified":"2024-04-20T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T06:41:48","slug":"electric-air-taxis-may-serve-bengaluru-in-couple-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-air-taxis-may-serve-bengaluru-in-couple-of-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric air taxis may serve Bengaluru in couple of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/BENGALURU: Get ready to travel from Central Delhi (Connaught Place) to Gurugram in Haryana in just 7 minutes as InterGlobe Enterprises, the promoter group of IndiGo, and US-based Archer Aviation will be launching their all-electric air taxi service in India in 2026. The cost of this 7-minute flight could be Rs 2,000-3,000 per passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Similar services will be launched in Mumbai and Bengaluru to start with. Explaining the trends of the Indian aviation space, with regard to such a concept, a Bengaluru-based aviation expert, on condition of anonymity, said, \u201cThis may be a concept in the non-scheduled segment, which includes charter flights, medical aviation, private flights, etc. A shorter-distance electric aircraft may make sense in the long run, but time will explain its feasibility in the Indian scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI\/BENGALURU: Get ready to travel from Central Delhi (Connaught Place) to Gurugram in Haryana in just 7 minutes as InterGlobe Enterprises, the promoter group of IndiGo, and US-based Archer Aviation will be launching their all-electric air taxi service in India in 2026. The cost of this 7-minute flight could be Rs 2,000-3,000 per passenger. Similar services will be launched in Mumbai and Bengaluru to start with. Explaining the trends of the Indian aviation space, with regard to such a concept, a Bengaluru-based aviation expert, on condition of anonymity, said, \u201cThis may be a concept in the non-scheduled segment, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}