From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: So Much Written... So Little Said
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:28:27 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-08-13 17:24, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:17:44 -0700, Alan says...
>
>> Blade, founded in 2014, doesn?t own a fleet of aircraft.'
>
> LOL
>
> Semantics?
>
> Are you claiming that all of the aircraft BLADE uses, are not
> theirs?
Yes. That is exactly what I'm claiming...
...because it is true.
>
> Semantics.
>
> They still will be FLYING helicopters, faggot.
No... ...they won't.
>
> Blade Air Mobility, Inc. (stylized as BLADE) is an aviation company
> headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. Blade's
> urban air mobility platform provides air transportation for
> passengers and last-mile critical cargo, PRIMARILY USING HELICOPTERS
> and AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT for passenger routes in the United States,
> Canada, Southern Europe, and India, in addition to being one of the
> largest air medical transporters of human organs for transplant in
> the world. Blade began trading on the Nasdaq on May 10,2021, via a
> SPAC merger.
>
> Blade's Short Distance business allows passengers to book seats
> directly from the Blade mobile app on flights operating between
> Blade terminals in New York, Vancouver and Southern Europe. Flights
> are typically between 10 and 100 miles in length and are primarily
> serviced on helicopters and amphibious seaplanes. Short Distance
> flights are also available on a full aircraft charter basis. Flights
> can also be crowdsourced at customer-selected times, where empty
> seats are sold to other flyers.
Congratulations, you can copy and paste from Wikipedia!
Too bad you didn't read a little farther down the same page:
'Business model
Blade utilizes an asset-light business model in which the company does
not own nor operate aircraft,'
And from the same paragraph:
'Blade's business model was designed to be scalable and profitable using
conventional aircraft, while providing the foundation to enable a
seamless transition to electric vertical aircraft (EVA or eVTOL) in the
future.[2] Electric vertical aircraft are expected to offer reduced
noise, zero emissions, and lower operating costs relative to
conventional aircraft.'
And from the footnotes mentioned there, starting with [2]:
'Blade does not own or operate aircraft
Instead, Blade buys aircraft time by-the-hour, paying only for flights
completed(1). Blade pays a fixed, all-inclusive rate which covers all
costs associated with flights, including aircraft, fuel(2), insurance,
pilots and maintenance'
And:
'Our platform utilizes a technology-powered, asset-light business model,
which was developed to be scalable and profitable using conventional
aircraft today, while enabling a seamless transition to Electric
Vertical Aircraft (âEVAâ) tomorrow'
<https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_713b75def29a3567aa3930079f21b851/blade/db/1311/11963/pdf/2022.11+BLADE+-+Investor+Presentation+vF-1.pdf>
The business Joby bought was literally DESIGNED to transition to
electric aircraft, loser!
LOLOLOLOOLOLOLOOOO