Boeing Wants Same Regulatory Standard For Commercial Jets To Apply To Air Taxi
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Boeing has urged regulators to improve air taxi safety regulatory standards to the commercial jets standards to improve overall safety. The company argued that the short flights on demand should not be placed on par with small private planes.
Chief Strategy Officer of Boeing, Marc Allen, while addressing the issue, stated that the industry and regulators need to have uniform regulation on operating systems and advanced air mobility vehicles using airliner levels of safety.
Regulations Are Preparing Design Requirements For Air Taxis
Regulators are preparing operational and design requirements for air taxis, which take off and land vertically at airports on short trips between cities. This enables these air taxis to easily beat traffic.
According to some analysts, certification rules that these air taxis must meet will be a turning point for many of the new projects that want to invest in the industry.
Allen added that regulators should use the same regulatory approach on air mobility safety in the same way it’s being used in commercial transport since the former also fly over crowded urban areas. He argued that even though they do not carry many passengers like commercial flights, their safety standards should be the same.
U.S. FAA Has Released a Certification Blueprint For New Aircraft
Advanced air mobility vehicles are usually lumped into a category for small aircraft than jetliners, although it can also be subject to other criteria.
On Monday, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued the certification blueprint that Joby Aviation will require to meet for its air taxi aircraft. The regulator has introduced more safety rules to maintain high levels of safety among air taxis.
The safety crisis on the 737 Max was blamed on redundancy. The crisis caused the model to be grounded for nearly two years. Boeing announced that it has carried out engineering and sweeping safety reforms since the fatal crashes of two jets that led to the death of 346 people.
Allen added that global regulators should introduce common requirements to certify these aircraft to make them safer. However, he admitted that it will take some time to establish such regulatory requirements. “To us, the more important thing is consensus on commercial safety standards,” he noted.
