Explaining the Golden Triangle route...

[LiamR]

All the best Facebook conversations happen after midnight.

A close friend of mine, who dosen't fly, didn't understand the concept of the golden triangle. Thinking it was a line. I explained via diagram.. Thought you might all like to see it.



Yes, I'm crazy. But he did understand it afterwards.

 

[samh004]

But flying to MEL via SYD leaves out one 'line' of the triangle, and thus it’s not a triangle, but two lines? If you fly back to the start point directly it becomes a triangle, sure.

 

[tuppaware]

All the best Facebook conversations happen after midnight.

A close friend of mine, who dosen't fly, didn't understand the concept of the golden triangle. Thinking it was a line. I explained via diagram.. Thought you might all like to see it.

View attachment 2265

Yes, I'm crazy. But he did understand it afterwards.

Looks like the start of a 4chan post ... anyways.

The generic idea is that regardless of how you fly the routes the golden triangle is 70%* of australian domestic airline business.
70% is a made up number. Not a fact

 

[TonyHancock]

How does this work in 3D?.......

 

[richie9x]

What's more it is almost an isosceles triangle that is the distance from BNE - SYD is slightly longer that MEL - SYD. Just need to move SYD south by 9 km and it would be exact.

 

[richie9x]

What's more it is almost an isosceles triangle that is the distance from BNE - SYD is slightly longer that MEL - SYD. Just need to move SYD south by 9 km and it would be exact.

Whoops, make that 9km north.

 

[malmacdowall]

Sounds like a conversation from the Bermuda triangle...

 

[Fantic125]

But flying to MEL via SYD leaves out one 'line' of the triangle, and thus it’s not a triangle, but two lines? If you fly back to the start point directly it becomes a triangle, sure.

I think you're going off on a tangent with this....

 

[malmacdowall]

Don't be such a square ...

 

[Mal]

I thought the "Golden Triangle" was where you sent naive young Australians to bring back "packages". Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ok, only joking there. But the name isn't exclusively used for the Qantas/Virgin revenue earner routes!

 

[ColinP]

Don't be such a square ...

That's an obtuse comment.

 

[LiamR]

Oi! You two, no more round conversations!

 

[tuppaware]

Oi! You two, no more round conversations!

Go Around the topic ???

HAHA

 

[MatF]

Love it ... very nicely done ... but it sounds more exotic and mysterious than it really is.

Also, a line does have points. 2 of them

 

[medhead]

Love it ... very nicely done ... but it sounds more exotic and mysterious than it really is.

Also, a line does have points. 2 of them

Actually a line has an infinite number of points

But I'm going off on a tangent now.