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Travel is great. If the author doesn’t want to, our ticket prices are reduced. One annoying travel thing: people who count numbers of countries they’ve been to

Travel is great. If the author doesn’t want to, our ticket prices are reduced. One annoying travel thing: people who count numbers of countries they’ve been to. You can hop around so many European countries in a week. But driving around US, you’d see slightly more of the world but only can add one to your count. Needlessly arbitrary. Most people here should consider themselves lucky how powerful our passports are. Do you know how difficult it is for most of the world to get tourist visas? It’s still in-person at the embassy experience and denials are expensive. I feel a little pressure to travel sooner these days because the a380 is going to be phased out starting in the 2030s. There’s no drop in replacement for capacity available. Airports aren’t being built. And many people in Asia are joining the international travel economy. They’ll get past that visa hurdle. I think we are headed towards a point where international travel is going to skyrocket in price in the next decade due to capacity hurdles.

zamadatix 3y ago
I wouldn't worry about the price of international travel from the perspective of per plane capacity. A380 is dying because nobody wants it anymore. Slightly smaller planes are already more attractive to both airlines and passengers. Most don't want to go to a hub then fly out with 500 others at a big bang time they want to go more directly in smaller groups and/or at better times. It's not necessarily more expensive to do so depending on the plane, regional demand, and if you can drop that connecting flight. Similarly the demand for more international flights means more orders for planes not a need for more seats in each plane, and there is no reason to expect we'll suddenly stop being able to increase plane production for a decade and then be in trouble just because the market shifted towards not making mega planes anymore.

zamadatix 3y ago

I wouldn't worry about the price of international travel from the perspective of per plane capacity. A380 is dying because nobody wants it anymore. Slightly smaller planes are already more attractive to both airlines and passengers. Most don't want to go to a hub then fly out with 500 others at a big bang time they want to go more directly in smaller groups and/or at better times. It's not necessarily more expensive to do so depending on the plane, regional demand, and if you can drop that connecting flight. Similarly the demand for more international flights means more orders for planes not a need for more seats in each plane, and there is no reason to expect we'll suddenly stop being able to increase plane production for a decade and then be in trouble just because the market shifted towards not making mega planes anymore.