Episode 21: Learning to fly: Advanced air mobility, feat. Joby Aviation

Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast

GUESTS: Bonny Simi, Joby Aviation, and Robin Riedel, McKinsey
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
It's the stuff of childhood dreams: the flying car that slashes journey time, avoiding traffic, and taking you directly to your destination.

Now, decades later, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched. In fact, there’s an entire industry building up around a new sector of flight, although as you’ll hear in this episode, it has very little to do with mainstream aircraft - or, for that matter, cars…

It’s called advanced air mobility (AAM), also known as urban air mobility (UAM), and to learn more about why it’s attracting so much interest, and more importantly, so many billions of dollars of investment, Ride played host to Bonny Simi of Joby Aviation, and Robin Riedel of McKinsey.
ABOUT THE GUESTS

Bonny Simi heads up Joby Aviation’s Air Operations and People. Before joining Joby, Bonny held a number of strategic and operational roles at American airline JetBlue, and founded JetBlue Technology Ventures. Bonny has piloted Boeing, Airbus and Embraer aircraft at both United Airlines and JetBlue Airways — and she’s also an Emmy-nominated sports reporter and a three-time Olympic Luge competitor.

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Robin Riedel co-leads the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility in the Americas and is a global leader of the Disruptive Aerospace sector within McKinsey’s Aerospace & Defense Practice. In his pre-McKinsey life, Robin led commercial and operations teams at a major airline, and like Bonny, is also a certified commercial airline pilot.
Connect with Robin on LinkedIn

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