Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland International) has asked Beta Technologies (Burlington, VT) to examine a larger battery-electric aircraft after concluding that the ALIA CX300 used in its recent demonstrator programme was too small to be cost-effective, chief executive officer Nikhil Ravishankar told New Zealand news outlet Newsroom. Ravishankar said even a larger electric aircraft would remain limited to relatively short sectors. "I don't think a …
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