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by seren 4700 days ago
Recent article on Airship used for sightseeing :

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/05/travel/paris-zeppelin-airs...

Compare the volume of the Zeppelin vs the number of passenger. If I remember correctly, it only take 7 passengers and it is rather slow to land and take off. So you have a lot of wasted time.

This really does not scale well when talking about big conurbations with millions of people.