Forecast aviation industry?
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I'm not sure what your question is. If you're asking where the aviation industry is headed in the future, I'd say all the big commercial carriers are dead. The future is going to be driven by VLJs and air taxi services flying VLJs. When I travel for business, my company pays around $1,000 for a full ticket, I spend a minimum 3 hours total sitting in an airport, get hassled by the TSA, have various annoying restrictions, am crammed in with a bunch of smelly humans, and have to leave at a designated time of the airline's convenience.
The air taxi system that is coming on the winds of the VLJs (Very Light Jets, $1 - 3 million each) are going to charge about the same price, will pick me up and any little airport, will fly on my schedule, provide comfortable seating, no waits, and I can carry liquids and everthing else on board with me. You should google VLJs and read some of the articles. Here is a random one from Businessweek - http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/con.
Eh?
Not sure what you mean.
My forecast for the aviation industry is that it won't exist for much longer unless they clean their act up fuel wise.
Fuel will become so expensive that very few will be able to afford flights, unless some alternative non fossil non polluting fuel can be found at a reasonable cost.
At least good old Richard Branson is showing the way forward, instead of burying his head in the sand like the US of A.
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All coming to an end!
Will end up with Internet and sailing ships.
Cannot carry on pouring billions of tons of planet destroying gases into the atmosphere EVERY DAY just because we can!
Civilian transportation: Larger, high-capacity airliners with better STOL capability. No need for longer runways for these monsters. On the other end there will be a need for smaller commuter planes to take up the slack vacated by the midsized aircraft (757, DC-10, and that class and size.) Wanna get rich?Find a regional commuter airline and buy into it. I did not say go all out. Just the $$ you can afford to risk (lose) and buy into several companies. Military: Win a congressional seat. Take only cash from lobbyists, no checks or favors as those are traceable. Get a foreign bank account. Serve one term and split with all the benefits including full salary for life.
As long as the FAA bows to the will of the airlines, there won't be any general aviation to speak of. It is all about the money..
Richard Branson is already taking booking to take people into space. He is developing his suttle in the USA at the moment. This will be in service in the not to distant future. As for trips to the moon and such this will be in the not to distant future with the developement of ion drives and will be open to the public.
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