{"id":211857,"date":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211857\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","slug":"first-ever-air-taxi-flight-completed-in-new-york-city-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211857\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever air taxi flight completed in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Joby Aviation on Monday finished its first electric vehicle take-off<\/a> and landing in New York City.<\/p>\n

The electric air taxi made its way from John F. Kennedy Airport to the Manhattan heliport network. Joby\u2019s stock increased roughly 3%, according to Yahoo Finance.<\/a><\/p>\n

Joby\u2019s chief product officer said the success of the flight shows the company could have passenger flights by the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how we supercharge this,\u201d Eric Allison said, according to Yahoo Finance. \u201cThis is how we are able to scale, both in terms of the cost structure and in terms of the environmental friendliness of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allison also touted that the aircraft is zero-emissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a zero-emissions aircraft, flying from JFK to here and back, but also incredibly low noise,\u201d he said. \u201cWe left the door open when we landed \u2014 if you left the door open when a helicopter landed, no one\u2019s happy in the lounge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allison said that there are benefits to Joby\u2019s aircraft that normal helicopters don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are places where people don\u2019t want helicopters to land,\u201d he explained. \u201cWith this type of technology, the convenience of vertical flight \u2014 being able to book a trip through the Uber app and fly at 200 miles an hour to the airport \u2014 you want that closer to you, and that\u2019s critically important for this business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Joby Aviation on Monday finished its first electric vehicle take-off and landing in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18547,18715,1186,18714,9,24,55,54,56,83639,83732,5738],"class_list":["post-211857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-air-taxi","tag-electric-aircraft","tag-jfk-airport","tag-joby-aviation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-urban-air-mobility","tag-vertical-flight","tag-zero-emissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}