Very soon you will be flying by air taxi in your city. This service can start very quickly in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai. For this, IndiGo’s parent company, InterGlobe Enterprises, has joined with America’s Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft, Archer Aviation. Both companies intend to launch full-electric taxi services in the country in 2026.
InterGlobe Enterprises is planning to start this service in collaboration with Archer Aviation. With this, a statement said that the InterGlobe-Archer flight aims to take passengers from Connaught Place in the national capital to Gurugram in Haryana in about seven minutes. This 27-kilometer journey by road takes one to one and a half hours.
Rahul Bhatia, group managing director of InterGlobe, and Nikhil Goyal, chief commercial officer of Archer, signed an MoU to form a proposed partnership, a joint release from the two companies said. However, regulatory approval is yet to be taken for this.
According to the press release, through a low-noise electric air taxi service that is cost-competitive with ground transportation, the two companies aim to provide a revolutionary transportation solution for the country while improving urban mobility with safe, sustainable Is.”
Companies Also Have This Plan
Apart from urban air taxi services, both companies plan to pursue several other use cases for electric aircraft in India, including cargo, logistics, medical and emergency and charter services. India currently does not have eVTOL-specific policies and regulations, and the infrastructure required for their operation also does not exist.
