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[โ€“] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

They wonโ€™t, but they make short flights viable.

Way less maintenance, โ€œfuelโ€ cost is a rounding error. But only good for 100-200km flights with maybe half dozen passengers

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

For most of those trips a train connection would be better. Hell even a bus connection works...

[โ€“] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Check how much 200-300km of railroad costs vs a simple airstrip.

The target isnโ€™t a massive million person metropolis, but a mid-sized city with manufacturing.

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well m, in my country we used to have loads of railroads everywhere connecting those smaller cities and villages but in thats the case anymore. Again I doubt we would want every small 10k cities to have their own airstrip and those cities are always connected with roads, so buses.

Not sure why you mention manufacturing, do you mean that the production would be transported by planes?

[โ€“] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Factories usually have expensive people coming in to install and maintain the equipment, as well as visitors from customer companies.

Source: lived in a factory town all my youth, family still does