A few niches in which airships make sense:
(1) intercontinental shipping point to point without the ship to truck/train transition bottleneck,
(2) shipping in areas with low quality and/or bandit infested road/train networks,
(3) transportation of people and freight between islands in island chains like Hawaii, Aleutians, Oceania, Island SE Asia, and Pacific NW,
(4) making point site development in roadless areas viable and making it viable to make areas where roads are hard to maintain roadless especially in Alaska,
(5) tourism in roadless areas including rain forests and glaciers,
(6) scientific observation platform in fragile environments,
(7) temporary communications hub/surveillance in disaster areas (like low altitude satellites),
(8) for small drone ones good for coverage of high school/college/pro sports events or for news reporting or traffic management,
(9) sky billboards, and
(10) resupply of ships (cruise ships, freighters, yachts, military, etc.) and sea bases (e.g., oil rigs).
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