The Flying Chairlift

Autonomous pad-to-pad transport for mountain terrain. No pilot. No deviation. The constraint is the feature.

Eastern Sierra, California

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Mountain Transport Is Stuck

Fixed Chairlift

$5–15M installed

Fixed route. Fixed capacity. Takes 2+ years to permit and build. Once it's in, you're committed.

Helicopter

$2,000–5,000/hour

Pilot-dependent. Loud. Weather-grounded. Fuel-burning. Not scalable.

Snowcat

30–45 min rides

Slow. Terrain-bound. Diesel. Limited to groomed corridors. Passengers endure long rides for routes a vehicle could fly in 3 minutes.

Autonomous. Constrained. Infrastructure.

Vehicle render — 3/4 front angle

Air Traverse is a fleet of autonomous electric vehicles that fly fixed corridors between engineered pads. No pilot. No manual controls. No deviation from the route. It's a chairlift that flies.

2–3 passengers

8 electric motors

6–12m AGL

Pad-to-pad only

Pad to Pad in Minutes

Board

Weight check. Restraint check. Automated pre-flight. Doors close.

Fly

Corridor altitude. Fixed path. No pilot input. No deviation.

Land & Charge

Passengers exit. Automatic charging. Ready in minutes.

Fleet Dispatch

Next vehicle dispatched by demand, charge state, weather, and corridor availability.

$189K per unit

$1.9M 10-unit fleet

3–5 yr payback period

5,000+ autonomous hours before passengers

Born in the Eastern Sierra

Mammoth Mountain. Convict Lake. The meadows between. The Eastern Sierra is where Air Traverse was born and where it will fly first. Thin air at 8,000+ feet. Wind that changes in minutes. Snow measured in feet. If it works here, it works everywhere.