Originally Posted by
Less Hair
The ground handling is a pain
Compared to what?
Lets compare it to an airliner.
That needs an enormous runway at every single place it ever lands. Lets say for an A380 in excess of a billion £ for an airport.
Originally Posted by
Less Hair
it needs huge hangars nobody has to safely store it
Well, build them at the places it needs storing?
Originally Posted by
Less Hair
ops are weather dependant like nobody else's
I will agree with that in part, because he weather problems are different, but not necessarily worse. How many other aircraft can just move out the way of a weather system for a day till it passes?
Originally Posted by
Less Hair
while the cost are high and payloads and speeds are low.
Far too early to have any chance of making that statement. For many uses, it's average speed to destination of load may be spectacularly faster, and costs may be orders of magnitude cheaper.
Many loads have entire roads built purely for a single cargo.
Entirely dependant on load and destination.