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American Airlines reserves 50 flying taxis

Filippo Silver badge

What's the usage scenario for this? Honest question.

With a range of only 100 miles, I'm having difficulties thinking of a scenario where you would not be better off using a car. Just the drive to and from the airports, parking and getting to the actual vehicle, even with all the fast-tracking the very wealthy can get, would almost always take longer than just driving 100 miles door-to-door.

Maybe if you're the kind of uber-rich that has a landing pad in their own garden, and you want to go to a party at some other uber-rich's place, that also has a landing pad in his garden, and happens to be more than 20 miles away (otherwise you're better off driving), but less than 100, and also happens to have the facilities to fast-charge the vehicle, so you can use it to fly back? Seems a bit contrived.

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