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China has achieved what seemed impossible: flying is not profitable on an 808-mile route
(farmingdale-observer.com)
Won't someone think of the poor airline owners.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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At what cost!
Probably like $25 one-way or some shit like that.
It's like $75 USD equivalent.
But you could also take the trip for about $40 if you're cool with a hard sleeper ride.
Sleeper rides are great fun. Good food too
Flying would almost never be profitable if "externalities" were priced in.
Noise from planes has measurable health effects for enormous swaths of people. Fuel use is bonkers, and they don't serve any of the communities they pass over unlike other transit methods.
Like props to them for their mad sick trains but also fuck planes. Flying is fun but ludicrously indulgent and deleterious.