Originally Posted by
oldchina
Are they going to get someone from the Swiss Railways to ensure it runs on time?
What time? What timetable? How to build a schedule without huge margins for weather delays?
It all sounds too technically minded and not commercially convincing.
Longer than an A380 with half the payload of an A320.
There is a niche market for these in transporting and delivering/placing loads like say a 10 ton transformer to a remote location and placing it accurately on its 'plinth' . The task would otherwise require remaking roads, long careful low-loader transport then cranes with the site prepared for the cranes. I would think that operations in remote areas could keep a small fleet busy. There may also be a task to deliver offshore windmills to their sites or carrying maintenance crews to offshore windmills and delivering them to the gearbox nacelle by winching them down. There are no shortages of potential tasks.