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Airline transportation after the epidemic. The problem is being solved, but not the way you would have imagined
Airlines have been on the edge of collapse for many years and for many good reasons, but the real problem, at the basis of all the others, is the need for fossil fuels. Airplanes are voracious beasts: they consume around 7% of the world’s production of fuels and fueling planes represents about 20%-30% of the costs of operating an airline. So far, most companies have survived the vagaries of the oil market, but it should be obvious that crude oil cannot last forever. In addition, there is the problem of the pollution generated by fossil fuels, especially in terms of contributing to global warming. One result is the phenomenon called “flight shame,” another headache for airline managers.
So, if you want to keep planes in the air, you need to get rid of the need for fossil fuels. And that turns out to be nearly impossible, at least for the current generation of planes. I already discussed the technical and financial aspects of alternatives to fossil fuels. Hydrogen is a good fuel for rockets, but not for civilian planes, it is a technological and financial nightmare, Biofuels can’t help: there is no way that you can step production to levels sufficient to feed the current fleet of civilian planes. Electric planes are a nice idea for small planes, but there is no way that you can build an electric equivalent of a Boeing 747. Wide-body planes are optimized for the fuel they use, kerosene, produced by refining crude oil. And there is just so much that you can do to optimize technologies that have already been optimized nearly to death. Spending a lot of money, you can refine and retouch this and that, and make the plane gain maybe a fraction of one percent in performance, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for fossil fuels.
So, airlines reacted to the problem by cutting costs as much as possible. That was obtained by having passengers undergo all sorts of humiliations: crowded planes, long waiting times, unreliable flights, impossible schedules, non-existing ground services, horrible on-board food, and more. To that, add the ubiquitous harassment suffered by travelers at the entrance gates of airports. The whole looks more like the treatment inflicted on war prisoners en route for a concentration camp. But passengers seemed to be happy to accept being mistreated in exchange for low price tickets.
But, eventually, the solution chosen by airlines led them to a no-way-out street: there is a limit to how much you can cut corners. Ryanair even proposed to carry standing passengers on board, but it was nothing more than an advertising stunt. And then there came the coronavirus epidemic dealing a terrible blow to the already strained airlines. Right now, it is hard to see how passenger service can be restarted: people are so scared that they would accept to fly on a plane only if everyone were wearing scuba diving suits equipped with autonomous oxygen tanks. Probably the scare will abate in the coming months, and it is probably possible to introduce some kind of a “health passport” that would allow passengers to sit near each other without fearing to be infected. But, in the meantime, with the industry deeply in the red, you can kiss the rotors of the turbines goodbye.
Nevertheless, as I tend to say, for everything that happens there is a reason for it to happen, and the destiny of the airlines was already written on the wings of their planes. Last year, the demise of the Airbus A380, the flower of the European Aerospace industry, was a death knell for the very concept of the wide-body airplanes. It was known, and the effort of the aerospace industry was already moving in a different direction.
It is said that when the Titanic sank, the third class passengers remained locked in the lower decks and drowned. So, I think that the elites have already understood that there really is no reason why planes should have an “economy class,” nowadays. The result is a new generation of planes that only the rich are supposed to use. By getting rid of the commoners on board we can have less pollution, faster planes, lower use of fuel, and more comfortable flights. And here an example of the result: the Aerion AS2, a supersonic jet for just 8-12 passengers.
71 Comments on "Airline transportation after the epidemic. The problem is being solved, but not the way you would have imagined"
Richard Guenette on Thu, 7th May 2020 10:13 am
Give me sum juan. I like it in the ass
u on Thu, 7th May 2020 10:19 am
soon you will be required to have 30 shots to get out of the house. you can object by saying belief in (((supremetard))) enabled you to live this long. muzzie lovin supertards will counter with but science. you propose to amputated whitey supertard scientific supremacist “thunderf00t” at some point but
counter with the fact that muzzie lovin supertard from “royal” institution who speaks exclusively high british english for the love of supremacist muzzies admitted the model is wrong, broke quarantine to boink married gf, and lost job. so you say whitey supertards scientific supremacist will be required to have brain implants to disrupt thoughts lasting more than 1 sec. this is to prevent destructive consequences from faulty intelligence caused by whitey supertards scientific supremacists
p on Thu, 7th May 2020 10:25 am
i’m a tard and a former paultard and i approve supertard juanp the killer of followers of (((supremetard))) above.
i trust whitey supertard president paul on matters of constitution and laws more than all supertards on this forum.
and whitey supertard president paul already said there should be consequences for whitey supertard scientific supremacists who promugated the muzzielove virus hoax.
this means amputation, brain implants to disrupt thoughts lasting longer than 1 sec, and license to think.
sounds impossible? with politics, a lot can be done. just like how the whole world is locked down through politics. this is something this tard is still incapalbe of doing well but it can be done
More Lunatc Davy ID Fraud on Thu, 7th May 2020 10:57 am
JuanP on Thu, 7th May 2020 6:10 am
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Mick on Thu, 7th May 2020 7:01 am
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Richard Guenette on Thu, 7th May 2020 8:56 am
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More Lunatic Davy ID Fraud on Thu, 7th May 2020 11:00 am
Richard Guenette on Thu, 7th May 2020 10:13 am
Muzzie supertard faggot on Thu, 7th May 2020 11:41 am
To Tard or not to Tard that is the question
Supremoextremo-deTardo IV on Thu, 7th May 2020 11:44 am
I had a huge tard earlier. No toilet paper either cos of the corvid 20 virus!
Hoarder bastardos!
More Lunatic Davy ID Fraud on Thu, 7th May 2020 12:12 pm
Muzzie supertard faggot on Thu, 7th May 2020 11:41 am
Supremoextremo-deTardo IV on Thu, 7th May 2020 11:44 am
its nixon on Thu, 7th May 2020 1:37 pm
reprost
guyes
i enjoy posting here and wishing supertard madcat to croak or get kicked out by his bf/bff
but i wish i score instead of hanging out here with crusty old men
please be respectful of supertard
whitey supertard shot muzzie. muzzie said lynching. muzzie are trained to be on the offensive because it confers combat advantage in close proximity thanks to surprise factor.
l on Thu, 7th May 2020 2:42 pm
grate news
whitey supertard president mike flynn is innocent
he said amputate all muzzies starting with muzzie imams
long live whitey sueprtard president flynn. thank you for ur service
e on Thu, 7th May 2020 2:50 pm
y is whitey supertard president mike flynn book not availabe at all muzzie lovin bookstores?
why my previous search “muzzie croisants” yeield thousands pics of muzzies enjoying croisannt
but now zero, nada, zilch. muzzie infiltration…more infiltration more intense amputation
Davy on Thu, 7th May 2020 2:53 pm
“Database Of Wuhan’s ‘Batwoman’ Altered 48 Hours Before COVID-19 Samples Ordered Destroyed”
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/database-wuhans-batwoman-altered-48-hours-covid-19-samples-ordered-destroyed
https://nypost.com/2020/05/06/what-is-china-covering-up-about-the-coronavirus-devine/
“Days before the Wuhan wet market was bleached, whistleblowers were punished and virus samples were destroyed, someone at the high-security Wuhan Institute of Virology censored its virus database in an apparent attempt to disassociate the laboratory from a novel-coronavirus outbreak that would become a global pandemic,” reports the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, citing a UK intelligence analyst who found the alterations via open-source methods. Notably, the alteration occurred two days before a gene sequencing lab was reportedly ordered by the Health and Medical Commission of Hubei Province to destroy samples of the new disease and withhold information. According to the report, the alterations – conducted on the evening of Dec. 30 – were substantial, and occurred the day before the CCP notified the World Health Organization about the outbreak of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The primary database contact is none other than Shi Zhengli – now known as “batwoman” for her controversial experiments, including the creation of a ‘chimeric’ coronavirus that can infect humans. According to the report, Zhengli was in Shanghai for a conference when she was summoned back to Wuhan to deal with the outbreak which had been detected in two pneumonia patients. While on the overnight train back to Wuhan, the database was altered…”It looks like a rushed, inconsistent effort to disassociate the project from the outbreak by rebranding it,” according to the UK intelligence analyst who discovered the alterations. “It’s a strange thing to do within hours of being informed of a novel-coronavirus outbreak.” “If the WIV had found the missing link between bat virus RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2 [the coronavirus that causes COVID-19] from an animal vector, it would have been in Shi’s database,” he added.”
JuanP on Thu, 7th May 2020 2:53 pm
lying Chinese. I was so rong
Anonymouse on Thu, 7th May 2020 2:54 pm
so true Juan, so true. dumbass
l on Thu, 7th May 2020 3:02 pm
JuanP on Thu, 7th May 2020 2:53 pm
lying Chinese. I was so rong
superatrd,
using low english wont’ help u.
only way to help is to explain why u killed so many followers of (((supremtard))) whne you were a tough junta in south america
and why do tough guys lost?
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 7th May 2020 3:40 pm
“Having no plan is the plan! Haven’t you been listening? Plans are for commies and the Danish. Here we do it fast and loose and dumb and wrong, and occasionally we have a man who manufactures pillows come to the White House to show the president encouraging texts. It all works! Eighteen months, 800,000 deaths, no plan, states bidding against states for medicine and equipment, you’re on your own, plans are lame.”
I on Thu, 7th May 2020 3:42 pm
JuanP is one dumb mother fucker. No wonder he
Is hardly ever on the moderated side. He
Is too embarrassing!
Another davy Sock Puppet on Thu, 7th May 2020 4:42 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th May 2020 3:42 pm
Another juan Sock Puppet on Thu, 7th May 2020 5:06 pm
Another davy Sock Puppet on Thu, 7th May 2020 4:42 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th May 2020 3:42 pm
Duncan Idaho on Thu, 7th May 2020 6:12 pm
“And if we’re going to invent robots that will do our laundry and tidy up the kitchen, then we’re going to have to make sure that whatever replaces capitalism is based on a far more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power—one that no longer contains either the super-rich or the desperately poor willing to do their housework. Only then will technology begin to be marshaled toward human needs. And this is the best reason to break free of the dead hand of the hedge fund managers and the CEOs—to free our fantasies from the screens in which such men have imprisoned them, to let our imaginations once again become a material force in human history.”
Richard on Fri, 8th May 2020 11:42 am
As others would state, a pointless article, due to the fact, air travel won’t return for five years.