Look around and see what has been done in the past. On the cross Channel Car Ferry we would do two rotations, there and back, in about 1 hour 20 minutes, carrying three ordinary cars and their passengers in each direction. ( I think that Duty Frees were sold in the rear cabin, too.)
Passengers and cars would take about the same time from arrival at one airport to departure from their destination airport. The chock to chock time was 20 minutes, except on a few longer distance flights. It was usual for a crew to do six trips, 12 landings per day - and it was mostly day flying.
The Company carried a number of export AND import cars to fill the otherwise empty spaces and a certain amount of low priority freight.
I recall that SW Airlines were said to turn a DC3 around in 90 seconds when not refuelling.
It is said that F.W.Smith when at Yale in 1962 got a "C" Grade because when he made a suggestion for an Air Freight Carrier, his professor said the he was supposed to put forward a feasible idea, and so he gave him a "C" Grade. Perhaps the professor was correct - at the time.
Fedex started in 1973...
Few would have anticipated that something like Startrek's Communicator ( of 1966 +) could ever be nearly universal, affordable and in nearly everyone's pocket.
Just wait for the Startrek Transporter Room ! 2024 ?
Last edited by Jetdriver; 9th Feb 2013 at 11:06.