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“But at the end of the meeting, I told the team I wanted an assurance. “I’ll admit I was initially skeptical, particularly of their aggressive timeline,” the mayor said.

When approached in 2017, even Rawlings said the timeline seemed steep. The company hopes the cost will then become comparable to a ride in an Uber car. The goal is to make Dallas among the first cities in the world to take Uber passengers from the curb to the cockpit and back by 2023.

The company will have an urban airport called a "skyport,” where passengers would board Uber aircraft. The new video animation shows the ambitious vision for bringing flying shuttle service to Dallas in just five years. “But as you focus on the next five to six years to have different elements like this, it will help us around the edges." “You're not going to solve it with one thing,” the mayor said.