So what happens when the oil runs out?

[Oneworldplus2]

Emirates Says ‘Whole Load of Airlines’ Will Fail in Fuel Squeeze - Bloomberg

Emirates, the biggest airline by international traffic, said more carriers will go bust this year as fuel costs and sluggish economies undermine profitability.
“We can reel off a whole load of airlines that are teetering on the brink or are really gone,” Tim Clark, the Dubai-based carrier’s president, said in an interview. “Roll this forward to Christmas, another eight or nine months, and we’re going to see this industry in serious trouble.”


Earnings at Emirates are also being hurt by the continued grounding of Airbus SAS A380 superjumbos, of which it’s the No. 1 operator, after the discovery of wing cracks. Six of the jets, which generate $50,000 an hour 15 hours a day, are out of action for repairs, idling 830 cabin crew and 160 pilots, and the carrier is having to compensate people set on an A380 trip.

“That’s had a poleaxing affect in the last nearly three months,” Clark said, estimating the revenue loss so far at $90 million. “Those airplanes are always full, they’re always popular. We’ve had multiple cancellations. We’ve had people telling us ‘Well you sold me the A380’, so we had to throw in 5,000 or 10,000 miles or give money back. It’s a mess.”

 

[Chuq]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I happened upon it in the "similar threads" section ...

I think the short haul routes will change to high speed rail. Air travel will be reduced to travelling between landmasses. Of course if the cost of fuel continues to increase, it may become cheaper (comparatively) to build sub-sea rail links - Spain-Morocco, South Korea-Japan, Alaska-Siberia, Malaysia-Singapore-Indonesia-PNG-Australia. Of course some of these are ridiculously nonviable *now* ...

I don't know what New Zealand will do!

But there is no doubt that the Australia route Adelaide-Melbourne-Albury-Canberra-Sydney-Newcastle-Gold Coast-Brisbane-Sunshine Coast could NOT be serviced well by a high speed rail service in the future.

 

[UP4014]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I happened upon it in the "similar threads" section ...

I think the short haul routes will changed to high speed rail. Air travel will be reduced to travelling between landmasses. Of course if the cost of fuel continues to increase, it may become cheaper (comparatively) to build subsea rail links - Spain-Morocco, South Korea-Japan, Alaska-Siberia, Malaysia-Singapore-Indonesia-PNG-Australia. Of course some of these are ridiculously nonviable *now* ...

I don't know what New Zealand will do!

But there is no doubt that the Australia route Adelaide-Melbourne-Albury-Canberra-Sydney-Newcastle-Gold Coast-Brisbane-Sunshine Coast could NOT be serviced well by a high speed rail service in the future.

i vote for slow speed rail.

 

[Hvr]

i vote for slow speed rail.

Hmm Australia can barely do that so you may be lucky. Hopefully you will be steaming as it takes carriage.