My Italian: Chapter 569 Alitalia\'s small development

After entering 1912, although the world was a little tense, it was still considered calm.

If there is any sensational event, it is not the Titanic. The world's largest and most luxurious cruise ship belonging to the British White Star Line hit an iceberg during its maiden voyage and sank.

It directly led to the death of 1,517 of the 2,224 crew members and passengers, and only 333 of the victims' bodies were recovered. The casualties caused by the sinking of the Titanic is the deadliest maritime accident in history, which caused a sensation in the whole world. Major newspapers reported the tragedy of the shipwreck one after another. For this reason, people all over the world used their own forms to express their condolences for the shipwreck. In addition, American President Taft, British King George V, German Kaiser Wilhelm II, etc. Everyone issued a message of condolences, expressing their grief over the shipwreck.

The disaster of the Titanic was also a shock to the shipping industry, and many shipping companies strengthened the training of the crew to deal with various situations encountered by the ship.

Of course, this is also a remedial test. For ships that have already encountered shipwreck, they can only express their condolences with deep sorrow.

Of course, due to the impact of the Titanic shipwreck, the performance of the shipping industry will be affected in a short period of time, but it should recover soon, because people and goods everywhere will not stop.

Of course, the sinking of the Titanic also had an impact on another emerging industry, that is, the aviation industry.

The aviation industry has developed rapidly in recent years. Although it is still not at the level that ordinary people can afford, the aviation industry has incomparable advantages after all.

According to the most authoritative statistics, the world aviation industry has carried 50,000 passengers and more than 700 tons of cargo last year.

In these data, Alitalia accounted for two-thirds of the proportion.

Speaking of it, as the first airline company, Alitalia has a very high reputation. After the Swan airship sailed around the world, it resounded all over the world. Everyone knows about Alitalia.

The famous Alitalia then entered an era of great development. First of all, the banking industry is very willing to provide loans to help it develop. In addition, countries are also very willing to allow Alitalia to build air stops, so that their own countries can also enjoy the convenience of aviation.

Of course, as the aviation industry boomed, so did competitors.

However, these competitors are still unable to shake the status of Alitalia. On the one hand, Alitalia has rich experience in aviation management, and secondly, Alitalia has enough friendship in the field of airship manufacturing.

At present, in the field of airship manufacturing, Germany and Italy have absolute advantages. At present, only the Zeppelin Airship Company of the two countries and the Naples Airship Manufacturing Company of Italy are capable of manufacturing giant and large airships.

Britain, France, the United States and other countries, due to technology and late research and development, are still unable to manufacture large airships, let alone giant airships.

However, small and medium-sized airships cannot engage in the most lucrative intercontinental voyages.

So this also led to the fact that the two airship manufacturers who were full of orders from Alitalia had to give up orders from other airship companies first.

So this also resulted in Alitalia's dominance in the aviation industry.

One more thing to say here is that the airships currently transporting all use helium.

Although this has pushed up the cost of the airship, the airlines have adopted a tacit attitude towards this, and no one has thought of using cheap hydrogen.

It's not that I didn't think about it. When the aviation industry was developing rapidly two years ago, a newly established airline filled the airship tanks purchased with hydrogen for cost considerations, and was later reported in the newspaper. As a result, newspapers ran wildly about it, describing it as letting passengers fly with bombs on their heads, and the airship company fell into disrepair.

As for whether there are other airlines behind this, it is not known. But after that, airlines no longer have the idea of ​​using hydrogen.

In fact, hydrogen is not used, which is a very good thing for airlines. Because the airship has problems in the air, it is a very dangerous thing. If one thing happens, it's jeopardizing the entire aviation industry.

As the pioneer and main beneficiary of this industry, Alitalia will never allow any airline to make a move that threatens the entire industry.

At present, apart from military airships, helium airships rule the world at the level of civilian transportation.

It is precisely because of the use of helium airships by various airlines that the helium technology has been greatly developed. After all, helium, which is too expensive, is not a small burden on airlines, and it can reduce the cost of helium refining, which is also good news for the development of aviation.

For this reason, Italian Petroleum has invested a lot of money to upgrade the helium extraction process, making Italian Petroleum the world's helium supply giant. It also makes the price of helium 18% lower than before. This can also be regarded as fundamentally facilitating the large-scale use of airships.

So although I don't want to admit that the sinking of the Titanic has promoted the aviation industry, it is the fact.

At present, Alitalia's customers flying across continents are experiencing explosive growth. The previous ten-day scheduled flight from Europe to North America has been changed to seven-day flight.

Now Italy has three intercontinental air routes, the first and most profitable is the Europe-North America round-trip route from Rome-Paris-London-New York-Chicago.

The second is the Europe-South America round trip from Rome-Paris-Recife-Rio de Janeiro-Buenos Aires. Although this route is not as profitable as North America, there are also many rich people in South America, and the profits it brings cannot be ignored by Alitalia.

The third route is the Europe-Asia route, which is also the longest of the three intercontinental routes. Starting from London, take the round trip of Paris-Rome-Baghdad-Mumbai-Kolkata-Singapore-Pontianak-Shanghai-Tokyo.

Its voyage exceeds 20,000 kilometers and takes 13 days. Alitalia has only opened this route for half a year, and the effect is not bad. It facilitates the travel between Europe and Asia, and reduces the suffering of people suffering from turbulence at sea.

In addition to these ultra-long intercontinental routes, other short and medium routes are also good. The routes of Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow, London-Paris-Rome-Cairo, Berlin-Vienna-Istanbul, etc., all provide people with many choices.

With the increase in the number of airships and the increase in flight routes, the public's sense of shock to airships has also decreased a lot. It is difficult to see the situation of looking at the airship and being speechless in amazement.

In addition to civilian use ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Airships also play a big role in the military field. In addition to transportation tasks, the role of airships in other military fields has also been recognized by the military of various countries. The British Army formed its first airship unit, whose role was to attack the enemy in the air.

Needless to say, the British Royal Navy, the detection of airships has always been an important lesson in naval tactics.

The same is true of France, whose navy and army have formed their own airship units.

The same is true of Austria-Hungary, whose airship force was formed two years earlier. Even Russia, which is considered to be technologically backward, has formed its own airship force.

Since so many countries have formed their own airship forces, as the main countries producing airships, Germany and Italy are of course no exception.

The German military currently has the largest number of airships, and the Italian military also has a lot of airships.

Therefore, with the help of some behind-the-scenes promoters, airships have become the darlings of various countries in this era. A country without airships will be considered behind the times.

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