Leading advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure design and construction company Skyports says it has struck a partnership with US group LAZ Parking to develop vertiports in the Los Angeles, a move they call necessary to facilitate the introduction of air taxi services in the coming years.
At first glance, the pairing of a drone services startup and parking giant might seem counterintuitive. Yet LAZ Parking, whose origins date back to the 1981 founding, subsequent growth, and eventual merger of independent valet parking companies run by three childhood friends, has continually tried to innovate the services it offers, and explore how new technologies can enhance those. It now seeks to extend that further through an effort to transform traditional parking facilities into hubs connecting various kinds of new and next generation means of transport.
Skyports, which opened for business in 2018 as a drone services and vertiport infrastructure firm, has in…
