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Aug. 11th, 2009 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherTicket to Hell is on Offer at Europe's Airlines -- а вот исключительно вдумчивая статья про авиацию. Там говорится, что сегодня все всегда покупают самый дешевый билет независимо ни от каких других факторов (хоть без еды, хоть стоя, хоть вверх ногами), а дай срок -- и во всех остальных индустриях так будет, например, во всех ресторанах будут подавать только консервы, и только самые дешевые. Это взгляд в корень. Чувство собственного достоинства - зыбкая и легко исчезающая вещь.
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Date: 2009-08-12 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:23 am (UTC)Prohibited. Every time you see businesses delivering the same crap without any alternatives, you can bet that this crap is the only kind of product which is legal to sell under existing regulations.
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:42 am (UTC)But you have to have a big turbojet thingie which can only land at about 2% of airports if you want to go someplace fast enough or far enough. They start at about $25mil a piece.
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Date: 2009-08-12 03:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 03:58 am (UTC)General aviation. I think there are planes which take 5 passengers which can land in College Park.
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Date: 2009-08-12 04:09 am (UTC)They'd go for about $200-250/hr and go 130-150mph. Plus you may need to hire a pilot ($50-$60/hr). Typically a/c rent for engine time (fuel included, this is called "wet Hobbs"), plus maybe some per-nights minimums (2 hrs or so seems to be typical).
There's a bunch of local flying clubs which rent a/c-s for non-commercial purposes; practically every small airport near a city has one.
Typical loading, preflight checks, run-up, etc, take about 20-30 minutes. No security whatsoever. Many small airports have businesses (called FBOs, or fixed-base operators) which can provide parking, refueling, get a rental car or taxi, find a hotel, etc).
The biggest catch with GA is weather. These smaller a/c-s are a lot more dependent on it.
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Date: 2009-08-12 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 09:51 am (UTC)What I was talking about is use of non-public carriers (private clubs, and such). As soon as someone tries to offer an air-taxi services, he needs to jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops - different (and more expensive) a/c maintenance and inspection, completely different set of operating procedures (a _lot_ more expensive; and amount of paperwork can easily drown a smaller company).
The air traffic control infrastructure is horribly overloaded and antiquated (it's federal, what else to expect). If the same amount of passengers which is carried by large a/c were carried in light a/c, the ATC would simply collapse under load (for a controller in the tower it doesn't make any difference if the a/c is large or small - if anything, dealing with heavy a/c is easier because they have better equipment and better trained crew).
Besides, bigger planes are significantly more economical, reliable, and fast. There's no real alternative to large a/c and large companies to run them.
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Date: 2009-08-12 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-08-12 11:08 am (UTC)Что такого страшного творится на внутренних рейсах
Date: 2009-08-12 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-12 08:01 am (UTC)А маленькое подобие такого разброса есть в на крупных направлениях. Например, Париж-Москва — вылетать можно с разных аэропортов, прилетать в разные, время отправления и прибытия, время в пути — всё это значительно отличает одни билеты от других.
Мы, к слову, недавно покупали раза в два дороже самых дешёвых, чтобы не было пересадки. А потом аналогично, чтобы прилететь в Домодедово, а не ехать потом через всю Москву.
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Date: 2009-08-12 09:21 am (UTC)