Jobi Air partner and Virgin Atlantic to launch electric taxis in the United Kingdom

Judy flight Participate with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric cars in the UK, representing the seventh country that contemplates the emerging in marketing one day.

Jobi, who It was announced in 2021 By integrating the acquisition of special purposes, it did not make a schedule when it plans to launch its partnership with Virgin in the United Kingdom, Techcrunch told that it would come at some time after the launch of Joby in the United Arab Emirates and the United States

Jobi contemplated the start of the Dubai market test in the end of this year or early after that after introducing its first EVTOL aircraft (electric vertical takeoff and landing) to the country. The startup also planned to launch a commercial service in the United States, both in New York or Los Angeles, in 2025, but this schedule may be pressed as Joby works to obtain the necessary certificates from the Federal Aviation Administration.

In October 2024, Jobi said He was close to receiving a gender certificate – indicating the approval of the car design – but today’s spokesperson could not provide an updated timetable.

Joby will need to obtain its own certificates from the United Kingdom before it is also launched there. The company has applied to verify the health of its aircraft for use by the UK Civil Aviation Authority in July 2022.

Joby’s connection with Virgin comes nearly seven months after Techcrunch for the first time that the two companies have plans to work together-the news that we have reached through one of us “Small birds.”

According to the deal, Joby will be an exclusive partner for the United Kingdom airlines in the United Kingdom, and its California -based company also has mutual mutual An exclusive deal With another airline, Delta, in the United States and the United Kingdom, but Virgin’s partnership falls under that current deal because Delta has nearly half of the Virgin.

The Joby’s deal with Delta is to allow customers to reach a distinguished service that closes them from the local VertPorts directly to the airport. (Vertiports is an infrastructure where Evitols, the land, and the charge.

According to companies, Virgin customers will be able to reserve a seat on Joby aircraft in the future through the Virgin Atlantic application and the web site.

Partnership with airlines is one of the main roads in which Evtol companies plan to go to the market. The main Jabibi competitor, Archer Aviation, made similar deals united and Southwest.

Many of these deals included investing from airlines. Delta, for example, invested 60 million dollars In Joby, already, with an option to invest up to $ 200 million if Joby offers and promises. Investment is not part of the Joby deal with Virgin, according to Joby spokesman.

In a statement, Virgin said it would support Jobi’s efforts to the market in the United Kingdom by marketing the service to customers, working with the organizers, and helping to “build support to develop infrastructure to land in major airports.”

Evtol’s Joby is designed to carry a pilot, four passengers and some luggage. It promises to fly at a speed of up to 200 miles, which leads to a flight to Manchester a 15 -minute trip.

The start of operation is widely from publishing operations, but Joby mentioned its intentions to launch air car service in the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Japan, India and Australia.