Urban Air Mobility manufacturers regularly face the challenge to argue how research, development, and certification costs of approximately USD 2 billion per certified aircraft should be financially attractive and reasonable. To answer this question, we spoke with Gary Gysin, CEO of Wisk, and Chris Brown, Communications Lead at Wisk. According to both, aircrafts need to become autonomous in order to reduce costs and allow attractive returns on investment from operation onward…

In terms of the industry, we’ll most likely see the launch of cargo services, followed by passenger transport, starting with piloted and followed soon after by autonomous. Globally, we’ve seen that Asia has created an environment where Advance Air Mobility (AAM) will go to market first (e.g. China, South Korea, Singapore). However, the US, EMEA, and others will not be far behind that, on similar timelines.
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