So we spend $1 per ticket.
The total profit for the airline industry... thats ALL AIRLINES COMBINED throughout the world... last year is expected to be around 19 billion. The projected total industry profit for 2015 will leap ahead to 25 billion if fuel prices remain low. Europe and Asia are expected to make a net profit of just over $4 per passenger. Middle East just over $7, and Latin America and Africa $3 and $2 respectively.
How is your 3 billion, or $1 per ticket, looking now? Pretty pricey if you ask me!
I'm absolutely gobsmacked that someone who is so intent on increasing safety thinks that its viable to whack a $300 consumer device on an aircraft and run with it. There's a damn good reason that development costs are so high, and thats to ensure that your 'solution' doesn't cause more problems than it solves. And, quite frankly, one problem would be more than it solves.
If you want to put it on an aircraft, you better be able to damn sure prove that, under all circumstances, it cannot interfere with existing equipment, causes NO additional drag or fuel burn, and cannot overheat throughout the entire operating envelope of the aircraft. Can it be done? Of course it can. But it ain't gonna cost $300 per unit.
I have no doubt that this sort of tracking is in our future. But its time to stop being naive and just saying that it should be done immediately, and that the costs aren't significant. They ARE significant, and this implementation needs to be done carefully, with due consideration to the benefits vs the significant costs to an industry that is only just recovering.
The total profit for the airline industry... thats ALL AIRLINES COMBINED throughout the world... last year is expected to be around 19 billion. The projected total industry profit for 2015 will leap ahead to 25 billion if fuel prices remain low. Europe and Asia are expected to make a net profit of just over $4 per passenger. Middle East just over $7, and Latin America and Africa $3 and $2 respectively.
How is your 3 billion, or $1 per ticket, looking now? Pretty pricey if you ask me!
I'm absolutely gobsmacked that someone who is so intent on increasing safety thinks that its viable to whack a $300 consumer device on an aircraft and run with it. There's a damn good reason that development costs are so high, and thats to ensure that your 'solution' doesn't cause more problems than it solves. And, quite frankly, one problem would be more than it solves.
If you want to put it on an aircraft, you better be able to damn sure prove that, under all circumstances, it cannot interfere with existing equipment, causes NO additional drag or fuel burn, and cannot overheat throughout the entire operating envelope of the aircraft. Can it be done? Of course it can. But it ain't gonna cost $300 per unit.
I have no doubt that this sort of tracking is in our future. But its time to stop being naive and just saying that it should be done immediately, and that the costs aren't significant. They ARE significant, and this implementation needs to be done carefully, with due consideration to the benefits vs the significant costs to an industry that is only just recovering.
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