While the chosen aircraft and the first vertiport are ready, the project promoters still have to convince the authorities and regulators.
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00:00 Choosing the air rather than the road will soon be possible in Paris.
00:08 An electric air taxi service is to be launched during the 2024 Olympic Games.
00:13 But what will the trip actually look like?
00:15 We visited Europe's first helipad, a test terminal near Paris.
00:21 You will proceed to the check-in.
00:24 So we need to verify that you are the right passenger arriving at the right time.
00:28 Here is our small passenger lounge and about five minutes before the departure they will
00:33 be asked to board the air taxi.
00:35 Here again we've got a biometric gate and they are allowed to board.
00:43 The concept is that people will be able to board from five vertiports around the French
00:48 capital, one of them downtown on a barge floating on the Seine.
00:52 But residents have yet to decide if they'll accept these electric machines, which are
00:56 four times quieter than a helicopter.
00:58 The new aviation mobility is the carbon-based aviation that is present today.
01:02 It's an aviation that brings new uses, new uses, those that we think of, transport of
01:07 people, transport of packages, of the emergency, the medical and then those that we don't think
01:12 of yet.
01:13 For the manufacturers, the German company hopes to rapidly obtain the European Aviation
01:19 Safety Agency's green light.
01:22 Our first priority today and what we are all looking forward to and all our resources
01:27 are dedicated to, is the certification of the machine.
01:31 So we aim for a reasonable, something that is deliverable, that will be able to really
01:36 exist rather than doing things and promises that we will never be able to keep.
01:41 Paris will be the first world capital to launch a flying taxi service.
01:46 The project's carriers believe in it.
01:47 They have less than a year before the Olympics to convince regulators and authorities.
01:54 Cyril Forneuris, Euronews, Paris.
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