India’s first helitaxi launched in Bengaluru

India’s first helitaxi launched in Bengaluru

India’s first HeliTaxi was launched in IT capital Bengaluru, Karnataka n a bid to provide last-mile connectivity.

What is HeliTaxi?

• HeliTaxi is a helicopter shuttle service.
• HeliTaxi provides connectivity between Airport and Electronic City (located in south about 70 km from airport in the city centre), home to hundreds of technology firms including, Infosys and other multinationals.
• It has reduced travelling time between airport and Electronic City from two hours (by road) to 15 minutes.

Why Bengaluru need such service?

• Bengaluru has poor road density (measure of road length per square km area of land) as compared to other Indian cities. So, such service was needed much more than other cities to ferry air passengers to and from the city.