2025 World Expo Recruits eVTOL Operators

Akihabara News (Tokyo) — The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition has opened its recruitment process for eVTOL operators, which is expected to be a key feature of the event.

Advanced air mobility services are anticipated to become a major point of attraction within the Future Society Showcase Project Exhibition, one segment of the World Expo in Osaka. In this context, the organizers of the event will select the companies that will offer these services within the next month.

The announcement of application guidelines and the launch of the recruitment process began yesterday. The deadlines ahead are as follows: deadline for questions from potential operators is January 17; deadline for submission of applications is January 20; and the deadline for signing of memorandums of understanding is January 27.

The public announcement of the eVTOL operators which have been selected will come at the end of January.

The operators are expected to provide eVTOL air taxi services for visitors to the World Expo between a vertiport at the Yumeshima site and at least one other offsite location, such as Kansai International Airport or central Osaka. The distance between these points is about 30 kilometers.

The 2025 World Expo is being designed to become the event which heralds the full-scale arrival of the eVTOL industry in Japan.

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