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  • To be pedantic, the revenue they’re generating in their current vehicle doesn’t cover the operating costs for a flight, plus the costs of their existing tech debt.

    Presumably this is the primary reason for upping to six passenger seats— maintaining roughly the same operational costs while increasing revenue by 50%, all while tactically lowering refurbishment costs due to design improvements in the delta vehicle.

    If they didn’t have a viable path to profitability, their share price would have already completely collapsed. As of now, while the current price is pessimistic due to the massive delays, FAA and NTSB investigations, and overall concerns with safety culture in the broader aerospace market, they at least have a plan to achieve profitability within the next three years.





  • The generalized approach in industry is to use API calls, and create classes to structure the data you receive as JSON or XML. At that point, it is entirely up to you how to format and display the data from your classes. Take a look at some of the Lemmy client code like Mlem, Memmy, or Voyager as examples. Though they have gotten more complicated, they all follow this client-server model for front end development.

    However, due to recent shenanigans around API and RSS by companies, mostly those looking to prevent AI companies from using their data for free, the alternative, much worse method is to take the HTML output from a standard web request, and try to reverse engineer the page information into a class structure. This sucks, breaks frequently, and requires you to code around ads and other junk on pages in order to get at the content.