Why aren’t we using ground-effect airplanes in Ocean travel

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If ground effect are so much more efficient why aren’t we using them for flights, from Europe to the US for example?

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Something not mentioned by the other (vgood) answers here is maintenance.

Salt water spray and mist ingest into engines means some very expensive maintenance cycles and bills. This alone makes the concept infeasible even to military standards, nevermind commercial.

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