Massachusetts-based regional airline Cape Air has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Eviation Aircraft covering the purchase of 75 all-electric Alice commuter aircraft, the companies said. The contract signing comes nine months after Cape Air chairman Dan Wolf told a gathering at the Vertical Flight Society’s Electric Aircraft Symposium that the Alice could enter service with his airline as early as 2023 on scheduled routes connecting Boston and the Massachusetts communities of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket as well as linking Nantucket with Hyannis. At that time Eviation and Cape Air ostensibly placed an order in 2019 for the nine-seat Alice, but terms remained 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 said at the time. “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].”
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