More weeping and gnashing of teeth emanating from Shannon today on the news that Aer Lingus is to end it's Heathrow service to the west of Ireland airport. But instead of throwing the usual tantrums perhaps the powers that be would do better to take some inspiration from Jon Udell's take on regional Air Taxis -
"But a second force for dispersion has yet to kick in at all. It is the Internetization of transportation — and specifically, of air travel. That’s where Esther Dyson comes in. She’s investing in several of the companies that are aiming to reinvent air travel in the ways described by James Fallows in his seminal book on this topic, Free Flight. In that vision of a possible future, a fleet of air taxis takes small groups of passengers directly from point to point, bypassing the dozen or so congested hubs and reactivating the thousands of small airports — some near big cities, many elsewhere."
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