You are deflecting. You said the flights make sense on the Globe. Now you are trying to figure out some way to justify the insanity of the flight paths.

Only 20 million. That is not small.

So perhaps you were right that planes travel from small airports to larger airports to be practical

Dallas has a lot of short flights.

Perhaps you just explained why a plane would fly from South Africa to Dubai

Dallas is a Hub in the center of a good portion of America.

Nothing small about 20 million.

Because it makes perfect sense on the flat earth we live on.

That is the shortest distance possible. Not on the Globe.

@Steve Angell so you’re right, it does make perfect sense that an airport in Dubai would be taking planes from an airport a quarter of its size

That does explain why a plane would go to Dubai

Thanks

I agree Dubai is a major Hub. But you do not fly that far out of the way for no good reason. There are plenty of Hubs and were we on a globe Australia would not be all that much further. They would just go there.

But Sydney airport is still half the size of Dubai 🤔

Interesting

There is no valid reason to fly that far out of the way. It is not at all like Hallifax where it is a thousand miles to Toronto but 5000 to Paris.

You said the paths make sense on the Globe. Now you admit they in no way make sense. You say well it is hubs why they do it. Nonsense.

You should have originally said. Well it is hubs why they do that. I agree it does not seem to make sense on the Globe perhaps it is because of Hubs and how airlines choose to use hubs.

It’s also interesting that hundreds of flights leave each week that travel from Johannesburg to Dubai 🤔

And they don’t stop in Asia at all

Makes perfect sense on the flat earth.

Hmm makes perfect sense on the round earth too

South Africa to Sydney with no layovers

Or stopping at a hub like Dubai

No it does not. Not the one we discussed. You said they did it because Dubai was a major hub. Not because it made sense.

Those seem to both make sense on a globe

One is shorter and saves fuel, one gains more money from passengers

Sure some flights make sense on the flat and globe earth. Most longer ones only make sense on the flat earth.

Hubs make sense because of having enough passengers to make more money. Enough to justify the flight.

Exactly

You’re catching on

But airlines make the shortest path possible whenever possible. They do not go thousands of miles out of the way. They might if the airport is small go a thousand but that is about the max unless you are in sparsely populated Russia or something.

Another thing... why are you thinking about it as one long flight?

If you have 100 passengers in SA that want to go to Dubai and none to Sydney

Well the airline is booking it as one long flight. One place to another a long way away.

Not necessarily

Sure a layover occurs. But it is one ticket for the flight.

Sure when I travel and have a layover some get off some get on. How it works. I stay onboard or have to go to another plane. But I book the entire trip.

If lucky no layover.

@Steve Angell if you would like search flights from Johannesburg to Sydney for me

And tell me how many of the options stop in Asia