Jayant Sinha the Minister of State for Civil Aviation said on Thursday that the air taxi operation in India will be a reality soon. The minister shares he believes so after he met a representative from the taxi-hailing company Uber.
Met with @Uber Elevate team. India offers an encouraging and responsive regulatory framework to solve the challenge of urban transportation. With our progressive drone policies, we want to see air taxis becoming a reality soon!
Jayant Sinha tweeted and shares a photo with the Uber team.
Officials in the ministry said,
the Uber team had come to understand how India is thinking about this space (air taxi)
The representative included chief executive of the Uber aviation programme Eric Allison, who on Wednesday made a demonstration in Mumbai about its sky-high taxi service. The cost of flying and the time saved in intra-city travel. The meeting of the team with Sinha came against the accomplishment of the government unveiling the guidelines last month for commercial use of drones in the country from December 1, 2018. The instruction is aimed at authorized, safe, commercial usage of such taxis, among others.
We welcome the MoS for Civil Aviation @JayantSinha's vision to make intra city air travel accessible and affordable. #FutureOfMobility Our #UberELEVATE team met the Hon’ble Minister to discuss the potential of launching #UberAIR in India. pic.twitter.com/j0OVcRwbGM
— Uber India (@Uber_India) September 6, 2018
