The worldwide number of passenger jets will double to 50,000 planes over the next 20 years as more people embrace flying in defiance of climate campaigners, according to a Boeing forecast.
Rather, as more climb up to that bourgeois pleasure of being able to go to the beach for two weeks.
The world’s getting richer – huzzah! – therefore more people will be doing rich world prole style things.
Two factors stand against this :
Western politicians’ suicidal policies, which will tax air travel beyond the reach of ordinary travellers in Europe .
Boeing going bust.
As one wag put it, there are two types of air passenger: those who fly by private jet and those who wish they could fly by private jet.
And what happens when the natives start getting the hump with all the tourists (as in Espana at the moment) and decide that shooting them with water pistols is just not a strong enough deterrent?
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Even when I was a BA Gold Card holder and the Virgin equivalent the whole experience became terrible and the only way I would voluntarily fly again is to spite them.
Africans! Know your place!
Boeing could be right.
Do we think the Chinese, the Indians, and other BRICS countries are going to stop their people from flying?
Steve, the Chinese will if you upset them*……..
Euronews had an item about young Chinese who bought flats from Evergrande which are now worth considerably less than what they paid and don’t have leccy or other services so can’t be lived in. Voices distorted, fake names and faces covered in a manner more usually found in thirld world shitholes (such as Bradford, Leeds, London, Seattle, Paris cont. p94) so as to not incur the wrath of the Chinese ‘police’……
* and the rest of the ‘civilised’ world when digital currencies and ID’s get up and running.
Steve,
No. The hippies still haven’t taken hold.
The rest of the world is still living in the glorious times of studying proper things, building stuff, making money. The Chinese are just bulldozing whatever is between 2 cities, while we’re employing 1000 archaeologists on HS2 to go looking for bits of broken Roman pottery to add to the warehouses full of broken Roman pottery that already exist.
I have been inside a number of airports and I have also visited a number of abattoirs. Barring the duty free shopping and the tannoy, there’s not all that much difference.
It’s years since I’ve flown but I hear the occasional odd story.
A young friend flew into LHR from the US and then had to wait to rendezvous with colleagues flying in from elsewhere.
“I suppose you would have used the Business Class Lounge?”
“Yes, but it closes at 2 p.m.”
I sometimes get to fly in private jets and it is a great way to fly, Not just the aircraft, but the convenience and freedom of movement…..get to airport, board, fly. No security, waiting around, checking in, boarding etc. I can do this as I have a retired airline Captain mate who still loves to fly, takes me along when there is a spare seat, and I have a spare few hours, just for fun. Airport procedures are the pain in the backside, not the plane ride.
Addolff – Yarp, but I assume not everything in China is made of papier mache and rice noodles.
WB – they must have a good laugh when they see how long it takes us to build one nuclear power station.
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