Seems like a reasonable way to do it; the wifi at Toorcamp 2022 was backhauled by one Starlink dish, and although transfers were pretty slow any time between noon and midnight, the performance was way better than what I got on my phone at any point during the rest of the trip. Small hardware too! It's the little white wedge in the distance to the left of the couple (who I haven't asked for permission to share here)
I used to live in Miami and most of my local friends were kind of vague about everything outside of Dade County.'cause I'm not up on South Florida geography.
Softbank was hawking Fortress for the last six months or so together with a whole bunch of other Real Estate plays it was involved in. Being owned by Abu Dhabi is not the worst of things. It is probably more stable than Softbank at least in the medium term. Unlike with Branson, I don't think it will lead to branding as Etihad (means Union or Alliance and is the name of Abu Dhabi's airline, one of the Middle East Three) or anything like that.
George, your post is very much appreciated by this Florida resident. I remember when a hurricane warning was announced and the public informed of bridge lockdowns for evacuation there was more than one of the persons noted above using a loud hailer to yell obscenities at the bridge tender. An advisory warning to get your boat to safe harbor went our 24 hours earlier.
The most this is likely to do, in terms of affecting the business, would be to potentially trigger some codesharing. Ethiad has other codeshares, so if (in theory) they got back into the Florida market, they could hit several major cities with one route.
So far none of the changes in the ownership of Fortress (or FECR for that matter) has changed anything at Brightline. Do you have any specific reason to believe that something is different now or are you just shooting in the dark simply because anything is possible in principle?
2021 November 61,045 0.6 $ 582,979 $ 9.83 $ 9.55 0.8 $13.11
2021 December 95,348 1.3 $1,259,547 $13.63 $13.21 1.6 $13.63
2021 156,393 1.8 $1,842,309 $11.51 $11.78 2.4* $15.34
Year Month Ridership Tix Rev-A Tix Rev-B PPR-A PPR-B Tot Rev Total PPR
2022 January 64,243 1.3 $1,254,666 $20.24 $19.53 1.5 $23.35
2022 February 77,806 1.6 $1,624,589 $20.56 $20.88 1.9 $24.42
2022 March 107,069 2.3 $2,289,135 $21.48 $21.38 2.7 $25.22
2022 April 93,922 1.9 $1,926,340 $20.23 $20.51 2.3 $24.49
2022 May 102,796 2.2 $2,178,247 $21.40 $21.19 2.6 $25.29
2022 June 92,304 1.7 $1,713,162 $18.42 $18.56 2.1 $22.75
2022 July 111,582 1.9 $1,896,894 $17.03 $17.00 2.3 $20.61
2022 August 100,116 1.9 $1,917,221 $18.98 $19.15 2.4 $23.97
2022 September 91,577 1.8 $1,769,268 $19.66 $19.32 2.5 $27.30
2022 October 102,615 2.1 $2,126,183 $20.46 $20.72 3.0 $29.24
2022 November 102,544 2.2 $2,213,925 $21.45 $21.59 3.4 $33.16
2022 December 183,920 3.7 $3,733,576 $20.12 $20.30 5.1 $27.73
2022 1,230,494 24.6 $24,643,207 $19.99 31.8 $25.84
2023 January 156,137 3.5 $3,538,064 $22.41 $22.66 4.7 $30.10
2023 February 151,654 3.7 $3,654,861 $24.39 $24.10 4.7 $30.99
2023 March 179,576 4.7 $4,710,278 $26.17 $26.23 6.5 $36.20
2023 April 151,080 3.4 $3,446,135 $22.50 $22.81 4.9 $32.43Asking how long it will take for a government agency to sign off on a project? Now you're just asking for trouble...
Actually most segments have individually been tested and cleared. What they are talking about is continuous running tests which is more of a schedule test and in many cases does not involve FRA on the 110mph segments. More of running timetable tests etc. Remember, they have been running certifications tests for almost 6 months now in the 110mph sections. It is not like certifications tests are just beginning.
So far Brightline has done nothing ahead of the date that they gave.
