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Flying taxi service may begin operating between UK airports and city centres within two years

Published 18 July 2022
By David Mullen
A new consortium could begin trials of a flying taxi service operating between UK airports and city centres by 2024.

UK start-up announces flying taxi plans

Urban-Air Port, a start-up specialising in infrastructure for “future air mobility” plans to open 200 flying taxi and cargo drone hubs globally.
Published 24 January 2022
Equipmake founder Ian Foley: from Formula One racing to flying taxi tech

From F1 to electric cars: Equipmake's Ian Foley

Having worked on flying taxis and hybrid supercars, the founder of Equipmake has high hopes for his company.
Published 08 May 2019
Audi's flying taxi prototype takes to the skies for the first time

Audi's flying taxi prototype takes to the skies

Audi has proudly declared "flying taxis are on the way", after conducting the first test flight of the vehicle it's been developing with Airbus.
Published 29 November 2018
Entrepreneur develops flying taxi to ferry passengers across London

Entrepreneur develops flying taxi for London

A British entrepreneur is developing a drone capable of transporting commuters from central London to Heathrow airport in 12 minutes.
Published 16 January 2018
Uber and NASA to launch electric flying taxis 'by 2020'

Uber and NASA to launch electric flying taxis

UBER has done a deal with the US space agency to launch flying cars in cities around the world. The taxi hire company will work with Nasa to crea
Published 15 November 2017