- 27 Aug 2018 14:32
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But who pays for it? and why does it run? It's called a parliamentary train for a reason.
There is a subtly different thing going on there. For a start those empty flights are the consequence of contractual quirks for one of the busiest and most crowded airports in the world and a relative rarity rather than a normal everyday thing as with the Adelaide and Sydney "free" ghost buses. Unlike the adelaide and sydney ghost buses those ghost flights are kept to a minimum needed to satisfy contractual obligations in order to save resources.
It's interesting you brought up commercial airflight though; would you like to see "free" tax funded airflights? After all a commercial passenger plane is basically just a bus or train which happens to fly.
The solution to 1984 is 1973!
AFAIK wrote:The Paddington ghost train is run by a private company.
But who pays for it? and why does it run? It's called a parliamentary train for a reason.
AFAIK wrote: There are also ghost flights operated by private airlines from the privately owned Heathrow airport.
There is a subtly different thing going on there. For a start those empty flights are the consequence of contractual quirks for one of the busiest and most crowded airports in the world and a relative rarity rather than a normal everyday thing as with the Adelaide and Sydney "free" ghost buses. Unlike the adelaide and sydney ghost buses those ghost flights are kept to a minimum needed to satisfy contractual obligations in order to save resources.
It's interesting you brought up commercial airflight though; would you like to see "free" tax funded airflights? After all a commercial passenger plane is basically just a bus or train which happens to fly.
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The solution to 1984 is 1973!