cpdude,
Which bit bothered you? The pretending to understand engineering or the radicalism
The problem with faster aeroplanes is that we still have ancient ground infrastructure, based upon the passenger handling methods of the transatlantic liners. Its about time we got round to sorting out some of the archaic traditional practices involved in flying. Ticketing is a nightmare, check-in a farce. Security is a major bottleneck and baggage handling a joke. Air Traffic? Air Tragic more like it. With relatively cheaper fares, flying has become the common way to travel. Now we should look at ways to speed up the people handling side of things. Malaysia just built their new "KL" airport 90 kilometers out of town. Without a rail link and with only a traffic-jammed toll road to get into the city. Why bother with faster aircraft if the time saving is simply wasted on getting to the airport or check-in and baggage collection queues?
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Through difficulties to the cinema