Due to their characteristics, Hovercraft offer operational advantages unknown to conventional displacement vessels: 
 

• shortcutting of routes is possible
• quick landing on solid soil; no time-consuming mooring
• easy and quick embarkation on steady vessel
• no sea-sickness of passengers (sea-sickness only occurs below the frequency of movement of approx. 1Hz.)
• hull stays clear from cockles as hull is not in water
• easy maintenance on land, no dry docks necessarry
• turning within its own length with ease
• no harbours required