Malaysia Airports
has signed a tripartite MoU with vertiport company Skyports and urban air
mobility (UAM) pioneer Volocopter to explore the deployment of electric air
taxi services in Malaysia.
As a first step,
the parties will conduct a feasibility study examining suitable vertiport
solutions to enable the safe take-off and landing of passenger eVTOL vehicles,
considering factors such as demand, customer flow, and how to integrate UAM
operations.
The collaboration
forms part of the five-year Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Subang (LTSAAS)
Regeneration plan. It will explore the deployment of electric air taxi services
at LTSAAS as well as other locations throughout Malaysia.
Malaysia Airports’
Group CEO, Mohd Shukrie Mohd Salleh, said: “Air taxi technology and revolution
is the next big thing that we want to see happen in Malaysian aviation. With
LTSAAS offering a synergistic ecosystem within the aviation and aerospace
sectors, it is timely for us to explore this new service as it complements
other key developments of the regeneration initiative.
“Volocopter and
Skyports are both leaders in their respective fields of advanced air mobility
and we hope to further future-proof LTSAAS’s position in Asia-Pacific by
catering to research, assembly, manufacturing, maintenance, repair and
overhaul, in addition to air taxi operations. Our objective is to provide
end-to-end, mid- to high-value capabilities and solutions that are anchored by
top-tier operators.
“LTSAAS
Regeneration will offer various development opportunities to aviation and
aerospace players worldwide, thus, echoing the government’s original intent to
turn LTSAAS into both an international aerospace centre and business aviation
hub.”
-TTG Asia.
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