Airport Industry News
Tiana May
01 Jun 2026
Progress in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is often discussed as incremental improvements in aircraft design, including new propulsion systems, quieter rotors, and more advanced avionics. However, the true challenge lies not only in engineering the vehicles but in managing the complexity of an integrated system operating in low-altitude urban airspace.
AAM refers to the emerging ecosystem of services such as air taxis, cargo drones, and other forms of on-demand or automated urban flight, all sharing the same airspace alongside existing aviation activity. To understand how complex this becomes, it can be useful to step outside aviation reality. Imagine, instead, that dragons exist and are fully integrated into modern transport networks.
Absurd? Maybe. But as a regulatory thought experiment, dragons are surprisingly useful...
