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Cape Air Spells Out the Case For Electric Regional Services
The New England based Part 135 operator has 103 aircraft in its fleet, and is planning to add Eviation's new Alice fixed-wing electric aircraft to the network.
Eviation Alice
U.S. regional airline Cape Air is a launch customer for Eviation's nine-passenger Alice electric aircraft. (Image: Eviation)

Cape Air says its proposed fleet of Eviation Alice electric aircraft could enter service in 2023 on scheduled routes connecting Boston and the Massachusetts communities of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket as well as linking Nantucket with Hyannis, the operator’s CEO Dan Wolf revealed on July 21during the Electric Aircraft Symposium.

While Cape Air placed an order in 2019 for the nine-seat Alice, terms remain undisclosed and Wolf expressed some ambivalence about the economic case. “The first thing that Cape Air wants to do is introduce a new technology into a commercial environment that we know is successful,” he stressed. “If the economics of this are what people think they are going to be, and I’m not convinced yet…there’s an entire panoply of communities [that could benefit].”