Chicago’s airport commute makes it a perfect testbed for flying taxis, in addition to having United’s headquarters and busiest hub. For example, depending on traffic, the journey to or from O’Hare in the western suburb of Rosemont might take anywhere from 35 minutes to more than an hour; even using one of the city’s elevated trains can take roughly 45 minutes. Nonetheless, Archer anticipates that a journey in one of its air taxis from O’Hare to its destination at a downtown helipad will take only 10 minutes. The programme will initially be confined to the mainline O’Hare / downtown route, but the firms hope to expand it to include smaller pathways in adjacent areas in the future.
