(Henry Spencer) writes:

They will carry fewer people, but they will make more trips per day.
Mitch Burnside Clapp pointed out some years ago that a 30-passenger
suborbital rocket with fast turnaround can carry the same number of
passengers per day from L.A. to Sydney as a 747.

The slowness of lines for Customs, security, etc. is a matter of politics
and cost, not transportation speed. The only post-9/11 security screening
process I've experienced that was fast, efficient, and conspicuously
well-run was the one at Washington National. It wasn't hard to figure out
why: an awful lot of highly influential people go through that line.

I may be an outlier, but I haven't had problems with security.

Maybe it's because I find the experience of flying itself so irritating...

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