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Southwest Airlines Strikes Deal For Electric Air Taxi Network

Southwest Airlines has signed a deal with Archer Aviation to develop plans for an on-demand eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) service in California. The Verge reports: The service will operate using Archer's battery-powered, four-passenger, tilt-rotor Midnight aircraft, which are design...

Southwest Airlines has signed a deal with Archer Aviation to develop plans for an on-demand eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) service in California. (That fact spurred a lawsuit from Wisk for alleged trade secret theft, which was finally settled last year.) [...] As part of the deal, Archer will work with Southwest and its partners on the development of an air taxi network across California.

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