Skyportz, the Australian vertiport developer, today released new analysis identifying Delhi and India as a critical global market for air taxi deployment.
“The Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Vertiport Market Study,” suggests India can develop into one of the world’s largest passenger air taxi markets over the next two decades,” according to Skyportz. “Delhi stands out as a high-potential launch city, with strong demand fundamentals and clear infrastructure needs as networks scale.
Skyportz’s modelling forecasts the potential for around 40 million passenger trips per year in Delhi by 2045, and 200-250 million across India; approximately USD400 million in annual passenger revenues in Delhi by 2045, with an indicative extrapolation to about USD2.0-2.5 billion in annual passenger revenues across India by 2045; and about 10,000 to 15,000 vertipads across India by 2045 (indicative), anchored on a Delhi requirement of around 2,200 vertipads.
The report contends that Delhi’s position as a major AAM market in 2045 is driven by a number of factors, including: the long average commute distances and low peak-hour travel speeds, which make the time savings of air taxi travel significant; the high reliance on road-based transport, which means alternatives are less readily available and air taxi services can displace higher commuter volumes; the growing wealth of Delhi (and Indian) residents and higher proportion of residents who could afford air taxi services over time; the relatively low costs operating costs of air taxi services, with both lower capital requirements to establish networks and lower ongoing costs compared to other major cities
“Skyportz’s modelling shows that as air taxi costs fall, urban commuter services and intercity routes become increasingly competitive, accelerating demand for infrastructure distributed throughout the metropolitan area rather than concentrated at a small number of hubs,” says the report.
“Delhi’s numbers make one thing clear: this is not a small boutique market,” said Clem Newton-Brown, CEO of Skyportz. “Our modelling points to thousands of vertipads, tens of millions of passengers and sustained long-term infrastructure demand. That scale requires modular, affordable systems designed for networks such as the Aeroberm™”
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