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Re:GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight by benj111 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:20AM (#21105851)
You've missed out the crew though.

Currently the cost of pilot and co pilot are amortized over 100s of passengers.

You've quoted 2 crew to 9 passengers, and I'd have guessed 3 crew (pilot, co pilot, Air Host(ess))

Obviously when we get to autonomous flight that will change, flights will never be completely crewless though.

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Re:GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight by jillesvangurp on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:54AM (#21106151)
Most business jets today operate without an air hostess and some of them use only 1 pilot. I think the FAA limit for that is around 9 passengers. But you are right that that kind of cost is going to be dominating the overall cost.
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Re:GE, NASA Partner to advance the future of electric flight by 0xffff2 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @01:06PM (#21108204)
Business jets generally operate under completely different regulations (part 135 or part 91) from commercial air travel (part 121).
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