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It seems to me that the hub and spoke model would have been a lot more environment friendly. I think governments should tax airlines for their emissions.
by ma2rten 6y ago
It seems to me that the hub and spoke model would have been a lot more environment friendly. I think governments should tax airlines for their emissions.
- jabl 6y ago> It seems to me that the hub and spoke model would have been a lot more environment friendly. I would think it's the opposite, with more takeoffs and landings, and more miles traveled. A380 IIRC has higher fuel consumption per passenger than the latest generation twinjets (B787 & A350), but probably a new generation superjumbo could close that gap if there were a need for such a plane (which currently it doesn't seem like). > I think governments should tax airlines for their emissions. Absolutely. We need to drastically reduce flying. Most governments talk about the need to reduce emissions, but guess who received hundreds of billions of COVID handouts? Yup, airlines. A huge opportunity to instead invest in low-carbon infrastructure wasted..
- ma2rten 6y agoEach individual passenger would have more takeoffs and landings, and travel more miles, but in total I would assume the airlines flies less miles and has less takeoffs and landings. The number of flights is O(N) instead of O(N^2). I remember that the A380 was the most fuel efficient per passenger when it debuted.
- nanagojo 6y agoI agree for sure. Less flights the better. They should even enforce a cap on arrivals and departures.