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Chapo_is_Red [he/him]@hexbear.net to sino@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago

China has achieved what seemed impossible: flying is not profitable on an 808-mile route

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China has achieved what seemed impossible: flying is not profitable on an 808-mile route

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Chapo_is_Red [he/him]@hexbear.net to sino@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 days ago
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With its high-speed train, China has achieved what seemed impossible: flying is not profitable on an 808-mile route.
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With ultra-fast journeys, connected comfort and exemplary punctuality, the Chinese high-speed train is redefining travellers' priorities, to the point of suffocating domestic air traffic between Beijing and Shanghai. A logistical feat now a reality The rails between Beijing and Shanghai, two of the country's largest megacities, are undergoing an unprecedented…
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  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    frothingfash At what cost!

    • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Probably like $25 one-way or some shit like that.

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        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.

        • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Sleeper rides are great fun. Good food too

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        sicko-wistful

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Won’t someone think of the poor airline owners.

  • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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