Dreamliners rolling off production line at steady rate this year

Quote: Nareed

I have to smile. Mexico to Acapulco is a very popular flight. The highway going there was horrible, with trips of six to seven hours, one way, being common.. There's a better one now. But when it debuted, it was cheaper to fly than to pay the tolls for one person, and only about 40% more expensive for two people. The prices were reduced, but it's still an expensive stretch of asphalt.

It depends. Consider you can take the bus overnight, try to sleep there, and return late the next evening and spend another night trying to sleep... So, no. ;)

These are the number of passengers for the first three months of 2015, leaving from MEX going to various destinations

410,009 CANCUN
363,181 MONTERREY
313,243 GUADALAJARA
160,079 TIJUANA
142,768 MERIDA
96,859 TUXTLA GUTIERREZ
96,373 VILLAHERMOSA
77,075 PUERTO VALLARTA
72,317 HERMOSILLO
70,293 CHIHUAHUA
68,229 VERACRUZ
61,385 SAN JOSE DEL CABO
59,123 ACAPULCO

I have to figure that means the vast majority of people going to Acapulco are going by land. If we calculate that the majority of people going to Cancun are flying, I have to believe there is many more people who go to Acapulco as Cancun. I understand that violent protests have deterred some tourism there.

Quote: Pacomartin

I have to figure that means the vast majority of people going to Acapulco are going by land. [..] I understand that violent protests have deterred some tourism there.

Tourism is way down. Most of the people going to Acapulco are not going. I know several people with an apartment there who haven't visited in over two years.

Quote: Nareed

Tourism is way down. Most of the people going to Acapulco are not going.

I really liked Veracruz. Veracruz is almost completely invisible to the American tourist who are primarily concerned with Cancun & Mayan riviera, Puerto Vallarta and the Mexican riviera, Los Cabos, Acapulco and the close in destinations of Puerto Peñasco (nicknamed Arizona's beach), and Baja towns.
Veracruz is not as visually spectacular as Acapulco or Los Cabos, but the beaches are nice, the restaurants are good, and it seems very friendly. As far as I know it is much safer.

The riots in Acapulco have had little effect on the tourist area near the airport.

Seventeen year old Canadian invents airline inlet scoop that increases ventilation 200 percent and decreases pathogens fifty-five percent. Easy to refit into any airliner.

Quote: Fleastiff

Seventeen year old Canadian

Some other innovations recently considered by Airbus:

Piezoelectric crystals embedded in aircraft skin so normal flexing generates sufficient power for all entertainment systems and battery charging.

UAV swarms to rattle real birds and guide them to a sanctuary area away from the runway.

Subrunway energy generation by weight of wheels automatically fed into airport power grid.

Efficient, semi-automatic aisle food dispenser and trash sorter.

Quote: Fleastiff

Efficient, semi-automatic aisle food dispenser and trash sorter.

And liquid waste disposal. If public toilets are restricted to solid waste only, that is extra space for seats that they can sell and increase profitability.

Boeing might fill all orders for the smallest Dreamliner series in only 2 to 3 years.

Series: Orders-Deliveries=Unfilled
787-8: 473- 246=227
787-9: 489 -23=466
787-10: 142- 0 =142

Quote: Fleastiff

Some other innovations recently considered by Airbus:

Piezoelectric crystals embedded in aircraft skin so normal flexing generates sufficient power for all entertainment systems and battery charging.

UAV swarms to rattle real birds and guide them to a sanctuary area away from the runway.

Subrunway energy generation by weight of wheels automatically fed into airport power grid.

Efficient, semi-automatic aisle food dispenser and trash sorter.

Not good, these have all the signs of a management team too full of themselves and forgetting their core product.

Quote: AZDuffman

Not good, these have all the signs of a management team too full of themselves and forgetting their core product.

A very perceptive observation. Perhaps I should have been more precise and said these were student submissions to airbus from an Innovation Fair.