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Pratique du shadowing : I took the world's shortest flight. It was underwhelming.

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  1. This is the airport on Papa Westray, one of the smallest of the Orkney Islands off the tip of Scotland.0:00
  2. It is just a windsock and a hut and a gravel runway.0:04
  3. I didn't pick a great day to travel to this tiny little island.0:08
  4. The rain is going to return in just a few minutes, but it's still a nice little trip out to visit the world's oldest still standing house.0:11
  5. It's raining sideways.0:23
  6. And also watch some seabirds from quite a distance.0:26
  7. That's a bird.0:30
  8. That's a bird.0:31
  9. That is also a bird.0:33
  10. But leaving here, I'm taking the world's shortest commercial flight from this airport to the next island a mile away.0:35
  11. Which sounds like a great video, but as I start to write the script I found some problems.0:41
  12. It's a commercial flight and it's August 2021 as I record this, so masks are required, which won't look great.0:44
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  1. And the planes in use on this route are incredibly loud and rattly.0:50
  2. You wouldn't hear a thing.0:54
  3. And I'm not going to be the jackass who's vlogging on a tiny little plane with other passengers on it, loudly talking and bothering people and accidentally poking a selfie0:55
  4. stick into someone's face.1:03
  5. I'm just going to swap this GoPro out for a 360 camera and just record voiceover afterwards.1:05
  6. But a video about commercial aviation logistics using voiceover.1:10
  7. Well that doesn't sound like me.1:15
  8. That sounds like something that the Wendover Productions channel would do.1:17
  9. So, Sam.1:19
  10. Hey there Tom.1:21
  11. I'm going to leave this up to you.1:22
  12. I'm going to go catch my flight.1:24
  13. Spanning a distance of 1 .7 miles or 2 .7 kilometers over some 80 or so seconds, the flight Tom's about to take might seem an affront to logic, economics,1:25
  14. environmentalism, and more, but the world's shortest flight has a very real purpose for very real people.1:35
  15. You see, the Orkney Islands are a sparsely populated archipelago.1:41
  16. The vast majority of their 22 ,000 strong population lives on what's known, despite its island status as the mainland, leaving only about 4 ,000 on the outer islands.1:45
  17. These outer islanders need ways of getting to the mainland, of course, but bridges are expensive, especially over some of the longer inter -island spans in the Orkneys, and while1:54
  18. ferries do operate throughout the archipelago, they're slow and lack a direct connection to onward travel.2:03
  19. Therefore, the answer is airplanes.2:09
  20. Of course, flying is expensive, and in the world of commercial aviation, it's typically the case that the lower the demand, the more expensive it is for an airline to2:13
  21. operate a route on a per -passenger basis.2:21
  22. That's because smaller destinations lack the economies of scale afforded by operating larger airplanes more frequently at larger airports, so air service to places with 690 residents, like Westray and2:24
  23. Papa Westray, is essentially impossible on a free market basis.2:34
  24. The fares would be enormous per passenger, meaning people wouldn't choose to fly, meaning there wouldn't be enough passengers to fill a plane.2:39
  25. Therefore, flights to Westray and Papa Westray are subsidized through the UK's Public Service Obligation Scheme, meaning only a small portion of Loganair's revenue is earned through selling the flight's2:46
  26. 17 or 18 pound tickets.2:56
  27. Still, filling a 9 -passenger plane to Papa Westray in particular, with its 90 -person population, would be difficult.2:58
  28. Even at rock bottom prices, price elasticity only goes so far.3:05
  29. Therefore, Loganair uses a network design referred to as a milk run.3:11
  30. Essentially, it means operating a plane like a bus or train.3:16
  31. In this case, the BN -2 Islander aircraft leaves Kirkwall, the largest town in the Orkneys, with passengers destined for Papa Westray and Westray.3:19
  32. Then it lands in Papa Westray, drops off any passengers destined for that island, and picks up any passengers traveling to Westray and Kirkwall.3:29
  33. Next, it flies those 80 or so seconds to Westray, drops off its passengers, and picks up any final travelers headed for Kirkwall.3:36
  34. This way, it aggregates the cumulative demand of two islands onto one flight, allowing for operations to each more regularly than if they both had dedicated flights.3:43
  35. Altogether, this means the only people that might take the flight exclusively between Papa Westray and Westray are aviation enthusiasts and tourists who make the pilgrimage to fly on the3:53
  36. world's shortest commercial flight.4:02
  37. Tom, however, is returning to Kirkwall.4:04
  38. People work, and then we were off in the air again.4:17

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cumulative, elasticity, spanning, ferries, seabirds, archipelago
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