{"id":164631,"date":"2023-05-27T05:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T10:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/united-airlines-plans-to-bring-flying-cars-to-chicago"},"modified":"2023-05-27T05:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T10:22:57","slug":"united-airlines-plans-to-bring-flying-cars-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/united-airlines-plans-to-bring-flying-cars-to-chicago","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines plans to bring flying cars to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qaeNyrt5g-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>United Airlines and California-based startup Archer Aviation have announced plans to use flying cars to ferry passengers between Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport and a \u201cvertiport\u201d just minutes from downtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased that Chicago residents will be among the first in the nation to experience this innovative, convenient form of travel,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230323005204\/en\/United-Airlines-and-Archer-Announce-First-Commercial-Electric-Air-Taxi-Route-in-Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The megacity challenge:<\/strong> With 9.6 million residents, Chicago is the third largest metro area in the US, and experts predict the population is going to exceed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmap.illinois.gov\/onto2050\/socioeconomic-forecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.6 million<\/a> people by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines and California-based startup Archer Aviation have announced plans to use flying cars to ferry passengers between Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare International Airport and a \u201cvertiport\u201d just minutes from downtown. \u201cI\u2019m pleased that Chicago residents will be among the first in the nation to experience this innovative, convenient form of travel,\u201d said Chicago Mayor Lori E. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}