Airbus has closed the doors on its Voom urban air mobility (UAM) project, according to an announcement from Voom CEO Clément Monnet on Monday. The on-demand helicopter “air taxi” booking platform officially launched in 2016 and has been operating in São Paulo, Brazil, since 2017, Mexico City, Mexico, since 2018 and California’s San Francisco Bay area since September 2019. Voom suspended operations on March 23 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic but decided on March 30 it would not be resuming service.
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