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uhsguy  ·  1537 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Flying V first successful flight

Item 1-4 all add a lot of weight. Item 2 adds a shit ton of recurring maintenance costs.

Reducing fuel costs by half only reduced operating costs by 10-15-%. But you also decrease utilization by 50% so you actually increase total costs.

There is a market for luxury but it’s small and it has the same hub spoke problem where you have to take a shitty puddle jumper and wait at the airport for hours to get to the main airport and then to the destination airport. Why not just fly everett to Vegas in 3 hrs door to door instead of Everett-SeaTac-Vegas in 7.





kleinbl00  ·  1537 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah... once I discovered that 25kg of LIons is worth 1kg of Jet-A (and you get to land with all 25kgs) the flight of fancy became more of a hop.