Many Commonwealth islands don’t have airports — browse the Lesser Antilles on Google Earth to see why that’s a good thing – so short seaplanes like this would be a common part of a hub-and-spoke travel system.
Connecting dozens of Atlantic and Caribbean islands is a hard task. It’s also very exciting. A union of tiny islands is a good transport problem. Increasingly I’m considering how logistics, defence, manufacturing and education can be put on a boat and moved around.