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Re:Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships from Bedfo... by arethuza on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:20AM (#33163017)
They fly to a lot of places outside of Spain:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Air_Nostrum_destinatio...

Even within Spain the Balearic islands and Canary islands are very popular destinations and probably not going to be on any high speed rail network any time soon. :-)

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Re:Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships from Bedfo... by _visgean on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:34AM (#33163177)
Hmm according to this https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/our-aircraft/faq/ the max speed is 130kph, distance from valencia to palma is about 270km so its about 2 hour flight. Its 7:40 by ferry and 55m by plane... So this seems like a very good route for this type of aircraft.

They also have good comparisons here: https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/news-and-media/overview/in...

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Re:Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships from Bedfo... by arethuza on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:37AM (#33163205)
I've flown between Tenerife and La Gomera and El Hiero a few times - I was curious if they did the inter island flights, which I don't think they do.
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