Blade Expands to Jersey City Offering Five-Minute Ride to JFK

Blade Air Mobility Inc. will bring its helicopter service to Jersey City, offering local residents a shorter ride to New York City’s airports with a new stop on the Hudson River waterfront.

According to the agreement with Newport Helipad, Blade will offer charter flights and “explore the viability of the first ever scheduled, by-the-seat service” between Newport Helipad and New York’s airports and heliports, the company said in a statement Monday. A flight from the Jersey City helistop to John F. Kennedy International Airport will take about five minutes, versus two and a half hours by car, the company said.