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Could be useful for hub and spoke type systems, where you fly from a smaller city to the main hub, and catch a connection from there.

Even then there are lots of flights in Europe that are between cities less than 1 hour apart.

This idea generally makes more sense in Europe than the US, I think.

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Their first customers were from the Nordics, if you watched the video

Electric propulsion would eliminate the local environmental impact of emissions justification for the short-haul flight bans that are floated and/or implemented [1] from time to time in Europe. It makes sense to spray less jet/avgas exhaust when possible. Of course, if the ban reasons include noise abatement or evil conspiratorial machinations, they're still on the table ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-haul_flight_ban?#Overvie...

Perhaps, but almost all of those shorter trips are routes that should have fast train service anyway.

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