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If the heliport is going to be saved, The City and the IAA better get enforceable commitments from up-coming EVTOL services, airlines that plan on using EVTOLS, and the ultra rich people like Chuck Surack – who are doing everything in their power to ensure that they can keep using the heliport for trivial helicopter rides that normal people cannot afford.
Anything short of real, funded plans to 1.) Make Indianapolis a true midwestern transportation hub, with more traditional fights at the airport and enough affordable EVTOL use Downtown to justify the heliport staying open & 2.) Develop as much heliport and heliport-adjacent space as permitted by the FAA, will suffice.
Otherwise, I don’t see how any of us could see this as a case of anything but powerful people influencing local politics for their benefit by making deceiving promises about future technology.
As it stands, it’s certainly looking like EVTOLs will be most economical in mega cities, like NYC and Chicago, where there is an excess of upper-middle people who would benefit greatly by $75-$100 air transport from the city center to the airport. Indianapolis is spread out enough or congested enough for the same type of thing to make sense here. Plus, Downtown’s 30,000 people are a 15 minute Uber ride to the airport at all times, further reducing the value proposition.
Unless we get the aforementioned commitments, we should just forget about it.
We refuse to invest in a train or bus line that runs between the airport and downtown, known and proven technologies that would have a lot of usage and be a real asset to our convention business … but we’re going to invest in air taxis.
Sure.
No.
Whatever is done, it needs to financially stand on its own two feet by itself.
Heliport activity dropped by 50% in 9 years… what more do you need to know? The EVTOL’s argument is backed by nothing. It’s just theory. Keeping the heliport makes no sense.
It’s the aviation equivalent of the “get rid of IndyGo, autonomous vehicles are the future!” argument.
Does this guy know we can’t even get a dedicated bus line from the airport to downtown?
Keep it…. It’s historical and a great asset to indianapolis. I say the state has the best idea for this.