{"id":415844,"date":"2026-04-28T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/joby-first-flights-jfk-manhattan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:00:18","slug":"electric-air-taxis-in-the-big-apple-joby-begins-1st-flights-from-jfk-to-manhattan-for-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=415844","title":{"rendered":"Electric Air Taxis In The Big Apple: Joby Begins 1st Flights From JFK To Manhattan For 10 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based eVTOL company <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"574060\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Joby Aviation<\/span><\/span> is set to launch its first point-to-point flights in New York, marking a major step up for the futuristic concept that could fundamentally change real urban transportation. During a 10-day test campaign, the company flew its electric air taxis from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to a number of heliports across Manhattan, demonstrating how quiet, zero-emission aircraft could eventually cut the airport trip from over an hour by car to just a few minutes in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These aircraft will offer exceptional convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,396,10737,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-taxi","category-aircraft","category-joby-aviation","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415845,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415844\/revisions\/415845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}