TL;DR
An electric air taxi with a pilot aboard just flew a tour of Florida's air hubs: from St. Petersburg across the bay to Tampa International, into a brand-new landing pad near a terminal at Orlando International, and on to the old Space Shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center. The Tampa Bay hop retraced, 112 years later, the 22-mile flight widely called the first scheduled airline flight. For people in Florida, the hope is electric hops between airports and cities in minutes instead of a long drive, and a state law now lets Florida pay for landing pads, and a test track for the sky lanes is planned for the sky lanes. These were demonstration flights, not paid rides, and Joby's aircraft is still finishing its federal certification. To see our odds on when the first paying passengers could ride, and the timeline of breakthroughs that leads there, subscribe.
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