Archer Aviation wants to help New Yorkers skip airport traffic with electric air taxis

New York City — where you can get a dollar slice at 2am or a McDonald’s delivery in under 30 minutes, but still spend two hours crawling down the highway to catch a flight. Archer Aviation wants to change that. The electric aircraft startup says its air taxis could one day fly passengers from Manhattan to nearby airports in five to 15 minutes. The startup on Thursday unveiled its proposed air taxi network for the city in partnership with United Airlines, which would allow passengers to tack on an Archer ride to their traditional airline purchase. “We’re starting with nine core nodes,” Adam Goldstein, co-founder and CEO of Archer, told me. We — along with Nikhil Goel, Archer’s chief commercial officer — sat comfortably on plush sofas at Casa Cipriani, a members only club at the bottom tip of the island of Manhattan, where we could watch helicopters land at the Downtown Skyport. “So you have the three big international airports – JFK, La Guardia, Newark,” Goldstein continued. “You ha ... Read full article.