I have this memory in my skull of seeing something that said Asia might go a very different route from U.S./Euro model of hubs and spokes for future airline development, and instead focus far more in emerging Chinese market on more networked collection of smaller airports, smaller jets, etc.
Did anyone send that to me? Or has anyone seen something similar?
Feel like it flew past me and now I can't find.
[one hour later]
Ah, while the rest of you laggards found something better to do on this beautiful fall day (at least here in Indy), Peter Jansen comes through: Time mag story that tripped my thinking.
Many thanks to Peter.
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I believe James Fallows has written on this subject in the Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200106/fallows. I can't find anything more recent.
Posted by Jeffrey Itell | October 20, 2007 10:21 AM
Was it perhaps a Time article from last week? The quote below is about half way down in the article about China developing an airliner manufacturing industry:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1670256,00.html
"China has recently begun building more regional airports, particularly in western provinces, to allow for more point-to-point flying and ease congestion at central airports. Those routes will likely be serviced by smaller planes, according to Chinese aviation officials. "There's a hole in the market we can fill," says Luo."
Posted by Peter Jansen | October 20, 2007 11:24 AM
There was also a Stratfor article, sometime this year but definitely not sometime this month. The tone and focus was similar-- that China is trying to bootstrap an aerospace industry, that their transport model was likely going to be different, etc. They then explained the realities of trying to put together such an industry and described it (correctly, in my opinion) as a 30-40 year undertaking.
Posted by Marcus Vitruvius
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October 20, 2007 11:46 AM