How do you think the future looks for airline transportation?

Question

Will it get faster?
Less costly?
More comfortable?
Hovering cars or vechicles?

Answer 1

eventually, everyone will have to get a full strip search before boarding the plane.. there will be no carry-ons, and it will take much longer to get everyone loaded onto the plane.. it will also be much more expensive because of all the extra personelle required to do all that..

Answer 2

The airline transportation is looking good for the future. The airlines recorded record sales over the past Thanksgiving break. As with the faster-Yes, the planes will be faster, how much faster I am not sure. I heard that engineers are currently developing a plane that actually goes into "outer space" and back into the atmosphere, which would make it faster. Less costly- Probably not. An airplane is a very complex and expensive machine. The price will continue to rise along with inflation. More comfortable-Most likely. There is a plane being developed that is bigger than the proposed Airbus A-380 and the bigger the plane means more space and results in more comfort. Hovering cars and vehicles are probably going to be developed, but those won't be around for my guess is around a century from now. Even when these are developed, people will still use airplanes, since it will still provide a faster mean of transportation.

Answer 3

Only in terms of check-in and check-out will the business possibly get faster. Jet transportation speed is near Mach 1 (speed of sound). The energy (fuel/design) increases exponentially as the speed nears, then finally exceeds Mach1. Basically, the airline business cannot afford to go faster.

Less Costly? No way. It takes a tremendous amount of energy (fuel) to get an airline off the ground. As fossil fuel reserves deplete, the cost of a gallon of fuel will rise exponentially. This unfortunately, will price the airlines out of business.

Forget about alternative fuels. The neat thing about fossil fuels, is that the energy is already stored in the crude - it just needs a bit of refining. On the other hand, alternative fuels have to be created "using other forms" of energy, or takes considerably more refining, which drives up the cost.

Except for the very rich, I would venture to say that in 30 years, us common folk are doomed to ground transportation. But hey - a bicycle ain't so bad....

Answer 4

It will not get any faster, either in check-in or in flight. The planes already go almost the speed of sound and Concord never was cheap enough to operate or maintain to be profitable.
Not likely to get cheaper either with cost of fuel going up and all the airline bankruptsy's. The number of planes in service (capacity) will slowly decrease as the number of airlines decrease. As competition decreases, then fares will go up where they should have been all along.
Less comfortable. Smaller seats and less legroom mean more tickets sold on the same size plane and more profit or maybe lower losses for the airlines.
There is the possibility of ground effect aircraft, but I doubt that it will be successful since the airports would all have to be by the water and have a way to execute a balked landing and still have somewhere to go.
Flight in ground effect increases the efficiency of the plane, but restricts the flight to a VERY low altitude. This would require that the flights only be transoceanic, not very flexible.

Answer 5

Not faster, unless it's a supersonic transport and that's not coming again soon. Air travel needs to be more costly if airlines are going to make profits. Less comfortable because they will try to cram more seats in to make more money. Forget flying cars, that's pure fantasy.

Answer 6

It will be slower due to overpopulation thanks to the underage pregnant teenagers
It will be more expensive due to canceled flights because all the seats are sold out due to overpopulation thanks to the underage pregnant teenagers
It will be less comfortable because they would have to increase the amount of seats while sacrificing leg room due to overpopulation thanks to underage pregnant teenagers....and I'm really tall so it sucks anyways
Hovercraft will not be available for mass production because... think about it, you're 10 feet above the ground going kinda fast... and your fan fails and you stop floating, you're gonna break an arm or three.

Future travel looks bleak to me.

Answer 7

Well, i think because we are demanding so much air traffic, the skies are ablsolutely filled with planes. Planes will now get bigger and bigger to carry more people and have less traffic in the air.

Answer 8

Really up there.

It will depend on just how fast or slow that an alternative fuel source can be utilized by that industry.

Answer 9

It will be better & better