My Italy

After entering 1912, although the world was a little tense, it was also peaceful.

If there is any sensational event, it is the Titanic. The world's largest and most luxurious cruise ship, owned by the British White Star Line, hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage.

It directly resulted in the death of 1,517 of the 2,224 crew members and passengers, of whom only 333 bodies were recovered. The casualties caused by the sinking of the Titanic were the deadliest maritime disaster in history, and it caused a sensation throughout the world. Major newspapers have reported on the tragedy of this shipwreck. For this reason, people all over the world have expressed their condolences for this shipwreck in their own ways. In addition, US President Taft, British King George V, German Emperor Wilhelm II, etc. Everyone gave condolences to express their grief over the shipwreck.

The Titanic disaster also shocked the shipping industry. Many shipping companies have strengthened training for crews on how to deal with various situations encountered by ships.

Of course, this is also a remedial test. For ships that have suffered shipwrecks, we can only express our condolences with a heavy heart.

Of course, due to the impact of the Titanic disaster, the performance of the shipping industry will be affected in a short period of time, but it should recover quickly, because the flow of people and cargo from various places will not stop.

Of course, the sinking of the Titanic also had an impact on another emerging industry, which is the aviation industry.

The aviation industry has developed rapidly in recent years. Although it is still not at a level that ordinary people can afford to sit on, after all, the aviation industry has incomparable advantages.

According to the most authoritative statistics, the world's aviation industry carried 50,000 passengers and more than 700 tons of cargo last year.

Among these data, Alitalia accounts for two-thirds.

Speaking of which, Alitalia, as the first aviation company, has a very high reputation. After the Swan airship sailed around the world, it became famous all over the world. Everyone knows Alitalia.

And Alitalia, which became famous, then entered an era of great development. First of all, the banking industry is very willing to provide loans and help it develop. In addition, various countries are also very willing to let Alitalia build aviation docking stations so that their own countries can also enjoy the convenience of aviation.

Of course, as the aviation industry boomed, competitors also emerged.

However, these competitors cannot yet shake Alitalia's position. On the one hand, Alitalia has rich aviation management experience, and on the other hand, Alitalia has sufficient friendships in the field of airship manufacturing.

Currently, Germany and Italy have absolute advantages in the field of airship manufacturing. Currently, the only companies capable of manufacturing giant and large-scale airships are the Zeppelin Company of the two countries and the Naples Airship Manufacturing Company of Italy.

Countries such as Britain, France, and the United States are not yet able to manufacture large airships, let alone giant airships, due to late technology and late development.

Small and medium-sized airships cannot participate in the most profitable intercontinental voyages.

Therefore, this also led to the fact that the two airship manufacturers, which were fully booked with orders from Alitalia, had no choice but to give up orders from other airship companies first.

This also resulted in Alitalia’s dominance in the aviation industry.

One more thing needs to be said here. The airships currently used for transportation all use helium.

Although this has pushed up the cost of airships, airlines have adopted a default attitude towards this, and no one has thought of using cheap hydrogen.

It’s not like I haven’t thought about it. When the aviation industry was booming two years ago, a newly established airline filled the airship tanks it purchased with hydrogen for cost reasons, and was later mentioned in the newspapers. As a result, newspapers reported it wildly, describing it as letting passengers fly with bombs on their heads, and the airship company subsequently went cold.

As for whether there are other airlines behind this, it is unknown. But after that, airlines no longer had the idea of ​​using hydrogen.

In fact, hydrogen is not used, which is a very good thing for airlines. Because it is very dangerous for an airship to have problems in the air. If only one of these things happened, it would jeopardize the entire aviation industry.

As a pioneer and main beneficiary of this industry, Alitalia will never allow any airline to make moves that threaten the entire industry.

At present, in addition to military airships, helium airships dominate the world at the civilian transportation level.

It is precisely because various airlines use helium airships that helium technology has developed significantly. After all, helium, which is too expensive, is a big burden to airlines. It can reduce the cost of helium refining, which is also good news for promoting the development of aviation.

For this reason, Italian oil company has invested a lot of money to upgrade the helium extraction process, making Italian oil company a giant in the world's helium supply. It also makes helium prices 18% lower than before. This can be regarded as basically providing convenience for promoting the large-scale use of airships.

So although I don’t want to admit the role that the sinking of the Titanic played in promoting the aviation industry, it is the fact.

At present, Alitalia's customers flying across continents are experiencing explosive growth. The previously scheduled flights from Europe to North America were once every ten days, and have been changed to once every seven days.

Italy now has three intercontinental air routes. The first and most profitable is the Europe-North America round-trip route from Rome-Paris-London-New York-Chicago.

The second is a round-trip Europe-South America cruise from Rome-Paris-Recife-Rio de Janeiro-Buenos Aires. Although this route is not as profitable as North America, there are also many wealthy people in South America, and the profits it brings cannot be ignored by Alitalia.

The third is the Europe-Asia route, which is also the longest of the three intercontinental voyages. Departing from London, we sail round-trip from Paris-Rome-Baghdad-Mumbai-Calcutta-Singapore-Pontianak-Shanghai-Tokyo.

Its voyage is more than 20,000 kilometers and takes 13 days. This route has only been opened by Alitalia for half a year, and the effect is pretty good. It facilitates travel between Europe and Asia and reduces the pain of people suffering from turbulence at sea.

In addition to these ultra-long intercontinental routes, other short and medium routes are also good. Routes such as Paris-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow, London-Paris-Rome-Cairo, Berlin-Vienna-Istanbul, etc. provide people with many choices.

With the increase in the number of airships and the increase in flight routes, the public's sense of shock towards airships has also decreased a lot. It’s hard to see people who are speechless in surprise looking at the airship anymore.

In addition to civilian use, airships also play an important role in the military field. In addition to transportation tasks, the role of airships in other military fields has also been recognized by the militaries of various countries. The British Army formed its first airship unit, whose role was to attack the enemy in the air.

It goes without saying that for the Royal Navy, airship reconnaissance has always been an important lesson in naval tactics.

The same is true for France, whose navy and army have established their own airship forces.

The same was true of Austria-Hungary, whose airship force had been formed two years earlier. Even Russia, which is considered technologically backward, has formed its own airship force.

Since so many countries have formed their own airship forces, as the main countries in airship production, Germany and Italy are certainly no exception.

The German military currently has the largest number of airships, and the Italian military also has many airships.

Therefore, with the help of some behind-the-scenes pushers, airships have become the darling of various countries in this era. Countries without airships will be considered to have failed to keep up with the times.