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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
How do they space it for IFR regulations in Conus? Less than 3 miles or 1000ft altitude seperation gets the controller snitched on, possible written warning and all sorts of red blinkey lights. You can do whatever you want in the middle of the Atlantic, however.
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This demonstration flight was done with French and Canadian air traffic control. Yes, the planes are flying much closer together (3 km instead of 55 km over the ocean). Vertical separation is the same at 1,000 ft. It also requires equipment in the planes to help them fly in tandem. That seems more doable than changing out the entire airline fleet when planes fly for decades.
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
There's also the idea that 600 people want to go to the same place
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Way more than 600 people fly the same routes at a time - just on different airlines. Looking at Newark to London you have United and British Airways flights that take off and land 5 minutes apart. That is just two cities and two airlines. The idea is you would have rendezvous areas in the ocean where flight from various cities could pair up.
Airbus calls their program Fello'fly and they hope to have it operational in 2025.