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and that would make the service better, and eventually cheaper, instead of flying 60 year old designs.
by kashkhan 4y ago
and that would make the service better, and eventually cheaper, instead of flying 60 year old designs.
- ars 4y agoHow would that possibly be cheaper? It costs almost exactly the same to fly a full airplane vs an empty one. If airplanes are not full, then prices have to go up, not down.
- kioleanu 4y agoMind you that the company still receives the money regardless, the only change is that they have to enforce the contract (not the other way around). Here in Germany, you would probably mandate them to charge your bank account directly and that is almost, if not impossible to get out of. A very possible outcome I see here is that you would probably be given a window in which to checkin, which will no longer hold until 2 hours before the flight, so they can sell the seats that were not claimed a second time
- coffeeblack 4y agoNot everywhere is “here in Germany”. In most countries around the world, this would be as nightmare.
- kashkhan 4y agoMIT already has aircraft designs that use 50% less fuel per seat-mile. If more of the plane is empty there is higher incentive to reduce seat mile cost especially if average seat mile revenue is lower.
- ars 4y agoCan you show me a ref to this design? (And yes, I tried to find it myself.) I suspect it doesn't actually work for the simple reason that fuel is the number 1 expense of airlines, and a 50% reduction would be utterly enormous for them - if such a thing existed it would be in extremely high demand.
- kashkhan 4y agohttps://inhabitat.com/mit-team-unveils-airplane-that-uses-70-percent-less-fuel/ https://inhabitat.com/mit-team-unveils-airplane-that-uses-70... https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100042401/downloads/20100042401.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100042401/downloads/20...