Electra and the UrbanV-Signature Aviation infrastructure platform, which combines UrbanV’s end-to-end vertiport development and operations capabilities with Signature Aviation’s global network of private aviation terminals, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
“Together, the companies will partner to build the foundation for a new regional mobility ecosystem that connects people and communities in fundamentally different ways by enabling direct, point-to-point air travel that expands beyond traditional aviation models,” said the companies in a press release. “This new model of travel, called Direct Aviation, integrates aircraft, infrastructure, and operations into a coordinated system to enable seamless travel between communities – and this new partnership supports three essential elements of the ecosystem.
“These elements enable the use of small, strategically located access points for the public’s increased access to regional air services,” said the release. “The collection of Ultra Short access points will form a distributed mesh network, embedded into existing communities, destinations, and transportation corridors.
“Direct Aviation is about giving people the freedom to travel from where they are to where they want to go without the constraints of traditional aviation models,” said Diana Siegel, Vice President, Commercial Programs at Electra. “Electra’s Direct Aviation Market Outlook shows that tens of millions of regional trips are already happening every day across distances where driving is inefficient and traditional aviation is often impractical. This partnership is a major milestone in bringing together the infrastructure, operational expertise, and global footprint needed to make regional mobility faster, simpler, and far more accessible.”
Under the MOU, the parties will work jointly to identify and develop Ultra Short access points along core demand centers. The goal is to move efficiently toward site-specific term sheets that define how this new model is deployed in practice.
Electra’s just-released Direct Aviation Market Outlook identifyies more than 35 million regional passenger trips per day across the U.S. and more than 6,000 routes with over 1,000 travelers per day, demand that is largely unserved by commercial air travel today.
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