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The Kingdom readies itself to go sky-high once again!
Lucario Boricua posted a City Journal entry in Kingdom of Rota
Queen Ilene: We are excited to announce seven proposals for the siting and configuration of our upcoming International Airport! These seek to optimize the airport's functionality with balancing both positive and negative side effects of its operation. As part of this process, we would like some input from citizens, local government and air transport professionals. Jenny Salisbury: We are very eager for your feedback! We are finally moving forward with this project due to the Kingdom's recent attainment of its first million inhabitants! Below are some considerations for this decision. The Royal Port Corporation summarizes them below: METEOROLOGY: Prevailing winds are of monsoon type, arriving from the south and southeast during the summer half of the year, and from the north and northwest during the winter half of the year. Winds occasionally shift to a more east-west alignment, but only rarely take a full east-west alignment Near the airport site we have Lake White, which routinely gets blanketed in fog in spring, autumn, and in the early mornings in general. URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: The city of Zamacentia is located relatively far away from the main conurbation of the Kindom, which roughly spans from Zacien in the southwest, all the way to Obstragon and Soblun to the northeast. All of the conurbation is linked by high-speed rail, while Zamacentia does not have this benefit. The city of Brandt is the closest settlement for options A, C, D, E and F, residents might show worries of accelerated deterioration of its rich historic architecture, along with complaints about noise, air and water pollution. The city, at the same time, serves as the current western terminus of the Rota Shinkansen high speed rail line. SITE TOPOGRAPHY: Sites closer to the south (adjacent to Zacien and Brandt) are constrained east-west by Lake White, and there are dangerous cliffs belonging to the Alba River Canyon, which can complicate landing approaches arriving from the south. Sites to the north are more constrained by the mountains forming the northern boundary of the Kingdom, while the adjacent hills to the east are taller than towards the south. AIRPORT OPERATION: Parallel runways allow for maximum throughput, of up to 60 aircraft maneuvers per hour (30 take-offs, 30 landings, simultaneously), but have the least flexibility for wind variation. Crossed runways (T, L or X configurations) have a more limited throughput for aircraft, as they do not allow simultaneous maneuvers and have a more limited ability to handle alternating maneuvers. They, however, facilitate holding maneuvers in the sky areas while also keeping more flexibility to adapt to the wind direction. Orthogonal runways (parallel or L) facilitate the construction of airport facilities, giving more room for terminals, parking, cargo, emergency services and airport-side development. ֍ KINGDOM OF ROTA ֎ INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SITING PROPOSALS Site 1--North of Zacien, northwest of Alba-Brandt, southwest of Balfour: Mew: Nyah nee niei nya ñnniaaauuu-niou mew? (Translation: Should we place the airport here?) Site 2--South of Lake Bronze, southwest of Zamacentia, northwest of Balfour: Mew: ...ñah neiniu-nee nimiu? Niu-ñie niu niou! (Translation: ...or maybe here instead? Make sure to vote!) Option A: Option B: Option C: Option D: Option E: Option F: Option G: Queen Ilene: Please communicate with us and give feedback on which airport layout to use, or which one could be further adapted for an even better solution to the growing air travel demands of Rota. Don't forget to vote on the poll accompanying this update!- 6 Comments
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The Demise of Air Berlin and its Consequences
TekindusT posted a topic in The Transit and Aviation Geeks Club's Topics
If you keep an eye on the commercial aviation world, probably you've heard about Air Berlin bankruptcy. If you're not familiar with that, in the spoiler there's a quick recap: (EDIT: Note the livery displaying with advertisement of BER Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. People are still laughing about that.) Myself living in Berlin, the demise of this company meant more than one more airline going bust. It is one more hit to a city that can't really get it straight with its transport infrastructures. Air Berlin put Tegel airport in the map and was the only airline that used it as a hub (with reduced operativity as TXL isn't ready to function as a real hub). It carried the name of the city around and, so far what I have read, many saw it as a flag carrier for the city, in "substitution" of a Lufthansa uninterested in Tegel. Not everything was romantic though. In my very own opinion, Air Berlin earned its demise. I've flown with them a couple of times and basically they offered the same as low-cost airlines for a more expensive price in their European destinations (although the crew gave every passenger a chocolate in the shape of a heart after landing). Not a good way of operating these days in Europe. The airline expanded too far, too quickly, opening far-flung, short-lived routes to Las Vegas and Dallas/Fort Worth from their Düsseldorf hub (its long distance hub, a real one) in direct competition with flag carriers first and with long range LCCs later. They especially targeted many North American destinations that simply offered not enough demand. Probably this is not the only cause of their losses, but poor planning is. All in all, the demise of Air Berlin means a huge shake for air travel in Berlin and all around Germany and, truth be said, a shakedown on Berlin travelers. EasyJet and Lufthansa are tearing down the airline as we speak, and beneffiting of the left out aircraft and valuable landing slots at Tegel. These are especially coveted, as TXL is quite a congested airport. Lufthansa needed to act fast to fill in the gaps Air Berlin left all over Germany, but sure they are wildly profiting from that. In a desperate measure, Lufthansa is deploying a B747-400 on the Frankfurt-Berlin route to cope with the increased demand, which will bring TXL to a strain, as this Cold War relic airport is clearly unprepared to host large jumbos and to make them turnaround in only 50 minutes. Passengers will need to board by walk on an apron area. Residents around Tegel runways ain't too happy about that. And all around Germany, Lufthansa and its subsidiaries have become a monopoly controlling all inner German air traffic, and fares are already skyrocketing due to the increased demand and the aim of earning easy money. Germany is a country where right now; coach, rail and air travel belong to only three monopolies: Flixbus, Deutsche Bahn and Lufthansa Group. It feels like if you're in a budget, you're forced to go by bus. A slow, dirty, crowded and with malfunctioning Wi-Fi bus. If you're middle class, you go by train. And if you're a business traveler, you go by plane. Citizens of first, second and third division in today's egalitarian Germany. And there's nothing you can do about that besides BlaBlaCar. EasyJet has struck the Deal of the Century with Air Berlin's empty landing slots and aircraft. Lufthansa wasn't really interested in them and EasyJet was seeing how Ryanair has consistently grown larger and larger at Schönefeld airport, flying an impressive 42 destinations from there. This could be easily felt at some point in mid-2016, I simply stopped flying EasyJet as fares were consistently more expensive than those from Ryanair. EasyJet is stationing in the next months a bunch of ex-Air Berlin A320 family aircraft, which are already compatible with the all A320 family EasyJet fleet, and opening a second operating base in Tegel. EasyJet will become in the next months the leading airline in Berlin, present at both airports and challenging the monolithic Ryanair position at SXF. For travelers, soon we will start hearing stories about "I booked a flight with EasyJet and I missed it because I automatically headed without my morning coffee to Schönefeld airport (as it's been done for years) and this specific one was departing from Tegel". I hope you never hear it from me, though. What are your thoughts on all this situation, and especially, on the new monopoly rising in Germany? What could have Air Berlin done better?
