Rome plans to offer travelers the chance to bypass its famously crippling traffic by flying in air taxis directly from the city center. The goal is to have the service up and running in 2024, ahead of a year-long Vatican celebration the following year known as Jubilee. A ride from the central Termini rail station, where the air taxi terminal could be located, to Fiumicino airport would take around 20 minutes, compared with as much as an hour by road.

“We expect millions of visitors to come from all over the world,” Marco Troncone, chief executive officer of airport operator Aeroporti di Roma SpA, said in an interview on Thursday. “This will be an opportunity to offer alternative mobility services and to accelerate the development of our infrastructure.”