Cargo planes are nothing more than useless wastes of money, amirite?

Hypothetically speaking, what if a pandemic breaks out and vaccines would need to be distributed around the world. Would you do that by freight trucks, cargo ships, mail pidgeons or by plane?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Employ 1 guy to fly a 50 tonne plane with vaccines for 10~ hours or employ 1000 guys on bikes carrying 5kg of vaccines with a lead time of 7 to 30 days. This is a certified unpopular opinion.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Ok my guy. What about the ferries that need to transport these trucks overseas? I can tell you having worked in the aerospace industry that during COVID and coming out of it we have spent MILLIONs on immediate transportation via planes because, we have deadlines to keep. Usually yes we preplan using trucks and ferries, but when needs must a plane transporting is second to none in terms of speed, urgency, and simplicity. There is also the cost of hiring these drivers and fuel costs, having them on retainer etc.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah break the speed law in every country!!! You dummy.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

With what do you pay the workers? Who btw will have to work 15 times the hours of a plane crew

by Anonymous 1 month ago

What if they can't wait though? Opening another factory might be too expensive and would likely take longer than shipping it over the ocean.

by Alone_Stuff_6409 1 month ago

Trucks can go faster than 140 kmh Source: Euro Truck Simulator 2

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yes, but not underwater

by Alone_Stuff_6409 1 month ago

Ships exist.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Spot the American. Now if you had said you're talking specifically about America that would be fair enough. But you didn't, and everyone else reading this is thinking "That guy has absolutely no idea what this planet is like"

by Present_Occasion 1 month ago

Hard disagree, this guy has got to be European. You can only reach 2 countries directly by driving in the US. And the example They give is France to Poland.

by Familiar_Season 1 month ago

It's called a trade-off. Different methods of transporting goods have different pros and cons. Yes it's much more expensive to ship goods by air, but it's also much much faster. A plane can deliver cargo across the world in a day, what it would take a ship weeks or months to do.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

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by Hot-Homework-295 1 month ago

Wow... Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted because people are impatient? Good lord. Society needs to learn self-control. The human body is excellent at fending viruses, and seafood and computer chips can wait.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Are you serious? No, you can't be serious.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

chill out techbro. Maybe try read a book sometimes, like about how well human body did fight ebola or the bubonic plague or how much it costs to cool down seafood for longer periods and how their quality changes over time, or how tight a market can be and the availability of something/microchips/phones/computers can determine if you or your competition will get ahead

by Anonymous 1 month ago

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by Anonymous 1 month ago

you know most cargo companies charter aircraft and do not own them. very few own them. even ones with company liveries like Fedex are charted flights the only company i know that owns aircraft is dhl a lot of what i see coming off these things is car parts ect. would you like to be without your car for 2 weeks while you get a shipment in from germany?

by Anonymous 1 month ago