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This question is actually pretty complex. If the plane is flying it doesn’t matter if people are on it or not. I might actually argue that frequent flyers are

by cwhiz 6y ago

This question is actually pretty complex. If the plane is flying it doesn’t matter if people are on it or not. I might actually argue that frequent flyers are flying to hubs and on flights that haven’t been canceled in 2020. Regardless, you can’t just make assumptions like the one in the article. Flying frequently is not the same as driving frequently. Your car doesn’t take off whether you’re in the car or not, but a plane does.

ryanbrunner 6y ago
For a sufficiently large reduction in people taking flights, the plane actually doesn't take off (either by reducing the amount of flights on a route or cancelling it altogether).
- cwhiz 6y ago
  Yes. Which is why we’ve seen a massive change in flight destinations this year. Hub to hub is still extremely busy. My main point is that I doubt frequent flyers are the ones pushing flight patterns.
- mantas 6y ago
  Or plane itself gets smaller
Symmetry 6y ago
Yes, it's not that every flight you don't take across the Atlantic saves 2 tons of CO2. It's that it has a 99.9% chance of saving almost none and a .1% chance of being the straw that breaks the camel's back in causing a reduction in flights on that route and saving 2000 tons of CO2. But they're the same in expectation.