Modern Developments in Transport: Air Transport

Easy Jet provides budget flights. Image credit MediaWiki

• Development in this transport sector includes enlarging and modernizing airports and terminals.
• There is also a strong drive to attract airlines from developed countries to fly to developing countries to boost tourism there.
• In developed countries, security is the greatest concern at busier airports such as Gatwick and Heathrow in London.
• Hence personnel and sniffer dogs patrol the air terminals looking for weapons, drugs and contraband.
• To increase capacity, the airports are being expanded instead of building new ones which is more expensive.
• The aircraft are increasingly becoming all weather with radar equipment installed to monitor the skies ahead.
• Comfort has increased tremendously with music, food, films and journey trajectories being provided.
• Longer range aircraft have been built which do not require frequent refueling.
• Faster aircraft to transport people quickly
• Budget airlines that prioritize affordability over comfort such as Easy Jet
• More affordable private planes
• Private jets for rich people and business executives
• Internet and phone charging capabilities  inside aeroplanes
• Streaming capabilities allow people to watch their preferred films and do business aboard planes
• Satellite tracking of planes
• Computerised navigation and autopilots to reduce fatigue and accidents
• Anti-terror technologies after an increase in terror attacks

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