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Heathrow Airport: incentives for carrier that will use electric aircraft

It would permit to reduce environmental and acoustic pollution

Heathrow Airport is trying to become the global center for electric aircraft, proposing to the airlines financial incentives if these will use electric or hybrid aircraft in the flights to London. An ambitious plan that on one hand will take away from the management company a portion of the taxes -which would not be paid by the airlines for a year-, but on the other hand would reduce noise and emissions...

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London, UK, 10/16/2018 12:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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