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Or add 100 dollars to the average cost of a NY-London flight, from my quick calculations. Flights would go up 50-200 dollars each way. That's not the end of the
by ebiester 8y ago
Or add 100 dollars to the average cost of a NY-London flight, from my quick calculations. Flights would go up 50-200 dollars each way. That's not the end of the world.
- ancientworldnow 8y agoThis figure doesn't take into account radiative forcing which makes that 1 ton figure act more like 3 or 4 tons in actual heating capability. Airline offset programs always ignore this (in addition to way under pricing carbon offsets because that market is mostly scams built around green guilt). Even at $100 a ton, you're talking a few hundred of dollars of price increases to offset damages. This probably reduces the number of people flying which of course raise the per capita damage and therefore cost even more.
- stevesimmons 8y agoHow does it raise the per capita damage? Airlines are only profitable if they fly at high load factors. If price increases reduce the number of passengers flying, the airlines will try to fly fewer planes that are just as full as today. Thus the per passenger cost is the same. (... based on a consulting project I did 20 years ago on airline network economics/route capacity optimization)