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It's amazing how much of end-to-end travel time is NOT the plane flying. It would be much more cost-effective to optimize everything besides the actual flight t
by nilsbunger 4y ago
It's amazing how much of end-to-end travel time is NOT the plane flying. It would be much more cost-effective to optimize everything besides the actual flight time for almost all flights. Things like:
* Airport-to-city travel time
* Airport security time
* Optimize boarding (very straightforward solutions but require passenger education)
* Speeding up taxiing / takeoff sequencing (not sure how but there's gotta be a better way than what we do now)
Each of those are challenging but would be more impactful (and more solvable?) than supersonic flight time!
- spaetzleesser 4y agoI think having a private jet solves the first three.
- smachiz 4y agoit also solves the 4th, since you typically are going to land your private jet at Teterboro instead of JFK or LGA (i.e. small fields without a lot of taxiing, or more importantly in NY, queuing for a runway (I've heard that we're 23rd in line for takeoff more times than I can count)).