Originally Posted by
jumppilot
You are talking like you think United made this investment to actually fly these things.
I’m more cynical. I’m more of the belief that this investment was “required” by the deep state (kidding...kinda) to push along the development of electric aircraft due to CARES funding.
However, Occam’s razor says United wants to make money off this investment, not fly these things.
Funny, I thought the same thing. Kind of like France is pushing alternative energy (hydrogen) as a requirement for government aid to the French aerospace industry, I could see some sort of “requirement” to push CARES3 through.
Once this is all behind us and things have settled down, it can (hopefully) quietly be dropped and buried. But for now United gets some press about how great we are and all that.