Electric planes could reconnect small US airports
Author: Saul Elbein and Sharon Udasin
United Airlines is betting that it can persuade small-city residents to replace a five-hour car trip with a zippy ride in a compact electric plane. If this plan works, it could lead to an electric renaissance for a lost age of regional American air travel, CNBC repod. Electric motors allow companies like Heart to start building small planes “that have completely different unit economics,” Forslund said. For residents of smaller cities, that means they either “get service they didn’t have, that they had to drive to an airport, or they’re going to have greater frequency of services,” Mike Leskinen, a United vice president, told CNBC. Sunak’s reinstatement of the fracking ban pleased climate activists and served to distance himself from Truss, according to the Post. Going forward, the prime minister said he would promote climate-friendly policies that provide “our children an environment in a better state than we found it ourselves,” the Post repod.