Other firms, such as Masten Space Systems, also of Mojave, are focusing on suborbital launchers that fly experiments and payloads, not passengers.
The furthest-advanced of the new airship companies, a German-American firm called CargoLifter, is planning a 260-metre-long airship that is intended to lift goods, not passengers.
In other words, it's not what passengers say, but how they say it.
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And operators would have an incentive to invest in new trains: if they did not, passengers could simply choose another rail company.
But not all passengers share the same dire view of the situation.
Not informing passengers about scanners can open the door to misinformation and critics, the study's authors said, and hurt the long-term acceptance and legitimacy of airport security.
However, it would not confirm passengers' claim that lights in the carriages had failed or reports that the power car had become detached from the rest of the train.
Very large tour vessels (those carrying more than 500 passengers) are not allowed to take passengers ashore, so their trips are known as "cruise-only".
Glyn Jones said Luton wanted to see more passengers using public transport but complained that at the moment the rail companies did not regard airport passengers as important as commuters.
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Unfortunately, the ship did not prevent the passengers from contracting scurvy and other contagious diseases and over half of those that sailed from England did not even make it to the spring.
First Great Western is currently advising passengers not to travel between Plymouth and Bristol.
But like so many decisions they make, these repositionings are ideal for the airlines, not necessarily their passengers.
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Private researchers who have analyzed federal data on airline performance say it's not surprising that passengers are irritated.
Virgin Trains said the line may not reopen to passengers services until during the week beginning 5 March.
But these aesthetic concerns, while not unimportant, are not what irk passengers most, says Anthony Smith, chief executive of Passenger Focus.
Air travel has become an integral link between the U.S. and the global economy--not just for passengers, but also for cargo.
The primary reason why Spirit can board planes more quickly is that it incents passengers not to carry bags onto its airplanes.
And let's not forget the passengers: about 14, 000 domestic flyers will be displaced each day, half the total number of air commuters.
According to the report, Mr. Nicholson told investigators that Mr. Dudley did not ask the passengers' weight or perform any calculations before takeoff.
But preparing food for consumption in the air presents unique problems -- not least that passengers' taste buds don't function as well at altitude.
Not only would passengers have to accept windowless flight, but several technical problems would also need to be overcome, including the need to manufacture pressurised cabins that are not the standard tubular shape.
Great North Eastern Railways, which had been advising passengers not to travel on the east coast route between London, Yorkshire, the North-East and Scotland, expects to operate an hourly service from early on Monday.
Ian Yearsley, from the National Tramway Museum, said the cost of renewing the track in the 1930s and the worry that there would not be enough passengers due to the depression, had led to the closure of the former tram system on 3 August 1946.
Or is it because the airlines have a self interest in not losing planes and passengers?
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What was not intended was that passengers, to avoid the fees, would change their traveling habits.
It appears to work equally well, whether or not it has PCB passengers on board.
Let passengers, not airlines, put a price on the value of their time.
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