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I've done route planning for internet service. the vast, vast majority of the time they're in busy areas. you're talking about outliers.
by shaklee3 4y ago
I've done route planning for internet service. the vast, vast majority of the time they're in busy areas. you're talking about outliers.
- TheRealPomax 4y agoYou've done route planning for internet service, or route planning for US/Canada domestic in-flight internet service? Because there's a lot of nothing in between successive towns in rural Canada and the US.
- shaklee3 4y agoI've done route planning for satellite internet for domestic flights. airplanes tend to take the exact same paths over heavily concentrated areas, and the hubs have a tremendous amount of demand around them. you can verify this by paying for flightaware data and looking at historical data by airline. even without ground traffic consider 3 planes in the same beam need to serve ~500 people. airlines bank on you not using it or charging a lot to keep the numbers down. JetBlue does it for free by subsidizing through the ticket price since people pay a premium for the name.
- diebeforei485 4y agoThis is for general aviation, not airlines.
- shaklee3 4y agosame thing applies since they share the same airports. they'll give these planes higher priority because of the cost, but it's not enough to make an entire business from. they need the residential service to be profitable.
- diebeforei485 4y agoNo, not always. Elon Musk flies into KHHR and KBRO regularly for SpaceX and these airports don't have much commercial service if any.
- diebeforei485 4y agoCertainly there are some shared airports. But private jets at New York fly into Teterboro, and most private jets in Los Angeles fly into Van Nuys. https://apple.news/AKfH3OT3dRI2KyES0F0KFig https://apple.news/AKfH3OT3dRI2KyES0F0KFig