AirAsia targets launch of flying-taxi business as soon as next year: CEO

The flying taxis it hopes to begin providing next year will come with as many as four seats and will be powered by a quadcopter

Malaysian budget airline AirAsia Group Bhd. said it is seeking to launch a flying-taxi business as soon as next year.
 

“We are working on that right now,” Tony Fernandes, the company’s chief executive officer and co-founder, said Saturday. “I think we are about a year and a half away from launching.”
 

Fernandes was speaking in an online discussion as part of the Youth Economic Forum.
 

With the airline business taking a hit from the coronavirus pandemic, AirAsia has been expanding in the digital space. It launched a “super app” last year that offers services from travel and shopping to logistics