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What are the advantages of airships over other modes of transport?

Airships are the only mode of transportation that is not limited by travel routes!
The most energy-efficient of the four known principles of flight in modern aircraft is aerostatic flight, which airships rely on. Energy is not needed to generate the aerostatic (Archimedes) lift force, and overcoming the frontal resistance of the airship in flight requires relatively small energy expenditures.
New generation airships will offer a number of major advantages over heavier-than-air aircraft (airplanes and helicopters):
- high economic efficiency,
- environmental friendliness (in terms of noise and CO2 emissions),
- no restrictions on travel routes,
- the possibility to fly solely on solar energy in the future.
Economic advantages of airships:
- lower cost of transportation (by 250% lower than that for airplanes, 1,000% lower than that for helicopters),
- higher carrying capacity (70% higher than that of airplanes, 1,000% higher than that of helicopters),
- optimum speed (higher than in land and water vehicles),
- long range (intercontinental, round-the-world and stratospheric flights),
- maximum duration (possible to fly continuously without landing for several months, in the long term - years),
- low infrastructure costs (no airfields are needed for takeoff and landing).

Environmental advantages of airships:
- lower fuel consumption (unlike airplanes, airships don't need fuel at takeoff, move forward on regular gasoline and partly solar energy),
- safe lifting gas (helium for passenger vehicles, hydrogen for unmanned stratospheric ones, and solar energy),
- flight safety (cannot go into a spin or catastrophic tilt),
- low noise and vibration levels (transportation is comfortable for everyone),
- less impact of infrastructure on the environment.

Moreover, modern airships are safer and more comfortable for people.