>>2065199a modern civil jet engine is literally "what if we took a turbocharged engine, but put everything in the wrong order"
>>2065192they literally do this, "feeder fights" are mostly small turboprops that might not carry a lot of people but one airframe does like 30 flights a day
they dont make big planes that do it because it's actually not economical; not that many people need to go to the same place at the same time, so it's better to have a bunch of things like picrel basically acting like a bus route doing lots of low passenger count flights but doing them at all fucking hours and maintaining a similar throughput to one giganigga flat fuck Herc wannabe