Overview

• Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida presented the plan at the city’s first Urban Air Mobility Forum, calling for uncrewed passenger flights within a decade as an objective.
• City Hall aims to approve a specific municipal ordinance on urban air mobility by 2028, establishing the local regulatory framework.
• The roadmap schedules U-space traffic management and an initial vertiport network by 2031, with a mature ecosystem that includes crewed and uncrewed aircraft from 2032.
• Madrid’s blueprint centers on three pillars: uncrewed aircraft including eVTOLs, modular vertiports, and critical systems for communications, navigation, surveillance, meteorology, cybersecurity and data management.
• The plan builds on a 2023 multi-stakeholder commission of about 80 members, existing police and medical drone use cases, and stated private-sector interest in pilots from companies such as Uber, Amazon and Cabify.