Risks and benefits of sustainable aviation: factors impacting the adoption of electric planes

Mohamed Abdelhamid () and Varalaxmi Gangane ()
Additional contact information
Mohamed Abdelhamid: California State University Long Beach
Varalaxmi Gangane: California State University Long Beach

Future Business Journal, 2025, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Electric planes (e-planes) represent a significant innovation in aviation and in technology in general. E-planes will bring many environmental benefits such as reduced noise pollution, a smaller carbon footprint, elimination of fossil fuel dependency, and reliance on cleaner energy sources. These contribute to a promising new future and the adoption of sustainable practices. However, despite these promising benefits, consumers/travelers may be hesitant to adopt e-planes due to the risk involved in new technologies and innovations. This study investigates factors that influence potential travelers’ intentions to travel via e-planes. We specifically look at factors associated with perceived environmental benefits and perceived risk. In addition, we investigate the impact of personal traits such as risk-taking susceptibility on the adoption of e-planes. We utilized structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the conceptual model using responses from 266 participants. Results show that the personality trait of risk-taking susceptibility has the largest impact on the intention to adopt e-planes. In addition, environmental benefits have a positive influence on e-planes adoption. The influence of environmental benefits is more than 50% higher than the influence of perceived risk on the adoption of e-planes. These results have important implications on strategies that aviation companies should follow to improve travelers’ adoption rate of e-planes.

Keywords: Sustainable aviation; Electric planes; Risk; Adoption behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1186/s43093-025-00468-z Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:futbus:v:11:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1186_s43093-025-00468-z

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://fbj.springeropen.com/

DOI: 10.1186/s43093-025-00468-z

Access Statistics for this article

Future Business Journal is currently edited by Soad Kamel Rizk and Hayam Wahba

More articles in Future Business Journal from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().