Archive for July 21st, 2009

Go back one hundred years and, to get anywhere fast, you were on the railway to the nearest port to get on a ship. When you think about the rate of progress, it makes you quite proud of human achievements. What used to take weeks in some cases is now hours, sometimes in airplanes that can carry amazing numbers of people. For example, the A380 is allowed to carry 853 passengers in an economy class set-up. So, if you do the math, sharing the cost of the fuel and writing off the cos…