Airbus and LCI are collaborating on the development of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) ecosystems, focusing on potential partnership scenarios in strategy, commercialisation and financing.
Under the agreement, both partners will develop AAM market perspectives and forecasts, conduct industry research and evaluate new commercial structures for fleet, battery and charging network solutions. Additionally, LCI will become a key financial partner for Airbus’s AAM projects around missions such as emergency medical services while exploring leasing and finance solutions for potential customers for CityAirbus NextGen.
“We are excited to extend our long-standing relationship with LCI, an innovative lessor that is globally unique in its positioning across the commercial fixed-wing, helicopter and advanced air mobility sectors,” said Balkiz Sarihan, CEO and Head of Urban Air Mobility at Airbus. “LCI’s combination of operational expertise, customer networks and financial insights complements Airbus’s technical innovation in flight technologies and will enable us to collectively drive the development of advanced air mobility.”
“For two decades, LCI and Airbus have delivered capacity and financing solutions to airlines and operators across the globe, and we are now extending that to advanced air mobility,” said Jaspal Jandu, CEO of LCI. “Transportation and logistical networks have a duty to be efficient, sustainable and scalable. Both LCI and Airbus take a holistic and pragmatic view of advanced air mobility, including vehicles and also infrastructure, financing and network adoption. By combining our respective strengths, we will incubate and accelerate an entirely new generation of aviation.”
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