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Recent Examples of air taxi
Topline Uber will offer helicopter and seaplane rides on its app next year, the company said, partnering with Joby Aviation—a month after the vertical aviation company purchased air taxi service Blade for $125 million.
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Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Last month, Blade's passenger business was acquired by Joby Aviation, an electric air taxi company that aims to eventually operate rideshare-style electric aircraft.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
For years, Joby has been battling it out with competitors to bring air taxi solutions to market.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
The company also laid off 27 workers at its Fremont facility in the Bay Area, and a single employee at the company’s Mojave facility, where a demonstration flight test of Supernal’s electric air taxi technology had been scheduled to take place later this year.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Last month, Blade's passenger business was acquired by Joby Aviation, an electric air taxi company that aims to eventually operate rideshare-style electric aircraft.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2025
For years, Joby has been battling it out with competitors to bring air taxi solutions to market.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
The company also laid off 27 workers at its Fremont facility in the Bay Area, and a single employee at the company’s Mojave facility, where a demonstration flight test of Supernal’s electric air taxi technology had been scheduled to take place later this year.
—Pat Maio, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air taxi
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Videos during that flight show equipment falling from the ceiling of the plane, with roughly 20 crew members cursing and laughing as they are thrown against their safety harnesses.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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As is often the case with bifurcated tales unfolding between two distinct planes of existence, the characters in the Realm of the Spooks, also have their matching counterparts in Frankelda’s reality.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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This is due to the noise level on an airplane, which influences a human's perception of taste.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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While still rare, most airplane incidents occur while the aircraft is taking off or landing.—
Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps no single network has encapsulated the struggle more than Germany’s ProSieben, which has spent much of the past two years turning around a huge broadcast liner to become a digital-first business that places jack-of-all-trades streamer Joyn at the center.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Lip liner—a bona fide ’90s beauty hero—has had a major comeback in recent years.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Air Force's largest military cargo aircraft was used to lift an amphibious screw tractor to the site to help with ice removal.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Another federal bill introduced last year — the Safe Air on Airplanes Act — would have gradually phased out the use of bleed-air systems that lead to fumes events on commercial aircraft.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Oct. 2025
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The hijacker was killed when Turkish commandos stormed the airliner and freed the 40 passengers and crew.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Small wonder that companies like British Aircraft Corporation were putting out publicity art showing the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner in the livery of all the world's major airlines in anticipation of hundreds of sales.—
David Szondy
October 28,
New Atlas,
28 Oct. 2025
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In the 1960s, the federal government also poured resources into developing a supersonic transport plane.—
Made by History,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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Although supersonic passenger aircraft found a niche from the 1970s through the early 2000s with the Concorde, commercial supersonic transport is no longer available for the mainstream consumer marketplace today.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
9 Feb. 2025
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Moscow has been accused of hybrid warfare measures in the region; German media outlet Kieler Nachrichten reported Thursday that the Russian amphibious Ropucha-class landing ship Aleksandr Shabalin anchored off the German coast and blocked a key shipping route between the Baltic and the North Seas.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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That research, for example, recently discovered a survivor of the 1912 Titanic disaster was – by sheer chance – buried within feet of a man who worked on the ship that rescued her.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Stratolaunch tests reusable hypersonic rocket plane.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 May 2025
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Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video) Going to SXSW 2025?—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Air taxi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air%20taxi. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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