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Old 3rd Oct 2007, 15:30
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You travel on BA, Qantas and SIA to and from the Far East, and see if you are 50-60% full! You have no idea how many people move on these routes- not to KL, but with majors to the big destinations. Also, show me a time when bigger equipment was available and nobody would buy it! Big = economic. Take-offs = slots (short supply and expensive). Night landing slots are valuable. And exactly what do you believe is going to stop the exponential growth in travel? Hundreds of millions of Indians are just sliding into the middle classes, along with lots of Chinese who will want to be travelling in the next 10 years. Computers are good, but 'virtual tourism' doesn't work. The western world is getting richer and richer. The eastern world is getting risher and richer- everybody is (except Africa, but that's a loser and always has been). South America is getting wealthy....why do people believe growth will stop? Are they short sighted?
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