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With the amount of overlapping vocabulary, I would've thought airplanes are basically just ships in the sky. Ports, captains, boarding, etc. Or are these used
by hunter2_ 2y ago
With the amount of overlapping vocabulary, I would've thought airplanes are basically just ships in the sky. Ports, captains, boarding, etc.
Or are these used metaphorically, like virtual computer stuff versus physical office stuff (desktop, folder, etc.) where there's enough similarity to avoid making new words but they're operated quite differently?
- philipwhiuk 2y agoThe need to overfly a country, vs just sail round, means that airlines need country's permission to fly into/through a country. Overflight privileges cost money. In addition protectionism has meant that you generally have to land or take off at an airport run by the flag you carry. So unlike shipping, a Malaysian airline can't fly from the US to UK. This means that airlines need to be based at their 'real' base of operations, they can't just register in a tax-shelter.
- rob74 2y agoAdditionally, the fact that passenger airplanes carry, well, passengers, while cargo ships don't, means that airlines are automatically under more scrutiny. Further to what you wrote, some airlines have even been blacklisted by e.g. the EU because of safety reasons, like PIA (the flag carrier of Pakistan!) from 2020 to 2023.
- hunter2_ 2y agoI guess cargo tends to go more by ship and passengers tend to go more by plane, but all 4 combinations certainly exist so no need to assume 2 variables are being compared simultaneously.