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Groupe ADP and Lilium N.V., a leading electrical airplane manufacturer and pioneer in Regional Air Mobility (RAM), launched a partnership to collaborate on infrastructures for the Lilium Jet in Europe, the Center East, and Asia. Groupe ADP, which operates and develops 23 airports round the globe with its two predominant partners TAV Airports and GMR Airports, will work with Lilium to make its vertiports accessible to Lilium’s customers.

Groupe ADP strongly believes in the end of AAM and gathers the principle stakeholders of the ecosystem to make it occur. As an integral section of the Pioneers 2025 innovation roadmap, Groupe ADP is proud to bring the first vertiport network in Europe for eVTOL airplane adore the Lilium Jet on its airports’ premises and with a worthy foothold in Paris.

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Groupe ADP is rising, particularly, total vertiports at two popular airports in the Paris space – Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget (home of The Paris Airshow) – to boot to a non permanent explain in the coronary heart of Paris in 2024. Groupe ADP’s vertiports will vastly bolster the Lilium network in France and place Paris as a important regional hub for Lilium Jet operators. As effectively as to its flagship locations in France, Groupe ADP operates an intensive network of world airports round the field, including key internet sites in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and India. These internet sites shall be important for operators of the Lilium Jet as they work to bring regional electrical aviation to passengers starting in 2026.

Sebastien Borel, CCO of Lilium, talked about: “It’s far popping into increasingly clear that about a of the very first eVTOL flights will occur in France and this partnership brings that milestone closer into mumble about.” He persevered, “Groupe ADP has a great portfolio of airports, each in France and round the field in markets that shall be key to Lilium’s commercial operations.”

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Edward Arkwright, Deputy CEO of Groupe ADP, talked about: “As a pioneer in rising infrastructure for evolved air mobility and a world airports operator, we’re overjoyed to officialise the work we had been conducting with Lilium to be sure the pattern of new products and services by eVTOL in the Paris space and worldwide.”

Caitlin DiMare-Oliver