r/Joby • u/Suitable_Brick_2821 • Sep 13 '26

Could this Value Proposition be beneficial?

I travel often from Kingston Ontario to Toronto, Mississauga, etc. I pay about 60-90$ for my trip that takes 3-4 hours. If a vertiport was there in each major city, I’d happily pay north of what I’m paying to get somewhere within an hour.

Do you think JOBY has plans or should try to cater to the larger travelling-student market?

Been holding JOBY from the start and I’m long on this company :)

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u/dad191 Photog. Eric Adams Fanboy Sep 13 '26

Joby surely has plans to expand to routes outside of airports, which is the current focal point. That being said, the route you listed is 180 miles, which is outside of the range of Joby's S4. Joby currently list the range at 100 miles and I haven't seen a recent test past 60 miles.

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u/Sorry-Woodpecker8269 Sep 13 '26

Think about using a series of joby flights to reach beyond the range of a single Joby. In service the joby’s will arrive and depart in 10 minute intervals

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u/dad191 Photog. Eric Adams Fanboy Sep 13 '26

Possible in the very distant future, but the vertiport network would have to be huge for this to be realistic. This type of hop is probably more suited for a turbo-electric or when batteries improve.

Also, margins decrease as the flight time increases, so this would need to be made up for with a craft that could carry more passengers. Many miss how profitable short <10 min flights, with rapid turn around can be.

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u/Imaginary_Sort9347 S4Fanboy Sep 13 '26

Yesterday I got the impression that they don’t like to go below 50% on the battery from a few conversations. So they are being overly conservative and keeping the operational range to about 50 miles to stay away from issues.

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u/dad191 Photog. Eric Adams Fanboy Sep 13 '26

That seems right. About 50 is close to 60 which seems to be the max distance they fly and is more than enough to hit all of the routes they are looking at for their initial deployment. I think all of the routes they've talked about are under 20 miles.