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Post by rdruxn »

bennysomething wrote: post #55
Aperocky wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stand up every hour to stretch all limbs, and I always sit aisles.

Erm, maybe it's recommended, but that is really annoying for other isle passengers on long haul flights. Well I find it annoying if someone keeps standing by my seat and stretching. I was once in front isle of economy: someone thought it was fine to keep appearing and standing in front of me at regular intervals.

Deep vein thromboses are real. It is very much recommended particularly on long haul flights

Re: Billion-dollar airline routes

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Post by csteubs »

nradov wrote: post #89
csteubs wrote: post #20

There's still money on the table for airline operators where routes are concerned. It sounds a bit fringe, but most of these flights take off and land at airports in large cities. International airports are often zoned around industrial centers that are typically set off away from the city core. Coupled with the high frequency of inbound and outbound traffic depending on the airport, commercial flights are excellent…

Most commercial flights operate in a small number of fairly narrow corridors. Is there really a billion dollar market for aerial imagery of those flight corridors? Seems unlikely.

Maybe--time will tell. We run revisit estimates with FlightRadar so I can say that there's a good amount of deviation in routes generally, but I also think narrow corridors are the mechanisms that makes rapid revisit even more powerful. When you can achieve minute-level temporal resolution for heavily populated areas using smartphones (to start), the cost is more or less negligible compared to satellite imaging.

I know of one market-maker HQ'd in Manhattan that currently pays $16 million/year for two satellite images per day of the oil storage tanks in Cushing, OK. Analysts determine tank volume by looking at the shadows cast by the floating lids on the tanks and use that data to set oil futures prices. There are roughly 1,500 flights over the same area every day. We're very much a hypothesis-become-startup at the moment but I'm optimistic!

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