Futurology

"Air Taxi" operations looked more like, say you're going golfing in Pinehurst, NC. If you take an airline, you're probably going to get a flight to RDU, rent a car at the airport, drive an hour down US-1. Or if you're enough of a high roller, the Pinehurst Hotel will have sent a limousine an hour up US-1. Either way you're talking driving boomer golf shorts royalty through Sanford and Tramway, and those towns just aren't very Wall Street Journal.

Instead, load them in a Cessna Centurion and make a ~20 minute flight to the Moore County Airport, which depending on traffic around the circle. Something like 12 golf courses to include Pinehurst #2 are within a 10 minute drive. The 36 hole Country Club of Whispering Pines is just behind the airport, the 10th hole and 11th tee of the Pines course is across the street from runway 23's threshold.

North Carolina has over a hundred public municipal airports, the vast majority see no regular airline traffic at all, and not everyone traveling to North Carolina is going to Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte, Asheville, Fayetteville or Wilmington. Those are the only places Boeings or Airbuses ever go.