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Paris Opens Air-Taxi Hub Targeting Flights for 2024 Olympics
- Trials begin as French city seeks first commercial eVTOL trips
- Craft to land on barge on Seine river, pad near Versailles
A VoloCity air taxi by Volocopter.
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France opened a hub for testing electric air taxis as it seeks to introduce the world’s first service with the new category of aircraft in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Aeroports de Paris, which runs the French capital’s major airports, will operate the facility alongside UK-based Skyports Ltd., a leading developer of so-called vertiports, as flying-taxi bases have been termed.