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However, those bailouts could have been tied to limiting short-distance flights. At least in Europe, trains are a good alternative for many short-distance fligh
by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
However, those bailouts could have been tied to limiting short-distance flights. At least in Europe, trains are a good alternative for many short-distance flights.
- adamsvystun 5y agoYes, this is correct. If you (somehow) tie the bailouts to limiting short-distance flights, than your bailouts are becoming more environmentally friendly. But again, doing regular bailouts is not necessarily tipping the scales in the anti-environmentally friendly direction. They can be neutral. They are neutral if they did not change the behaviour in relative flight usage comparatively to before the pandemic. Using this reasoning for example will make flight subsidies anti-environmentally friendly and not neutral (if you also do not subsidies other modes of transportation). Obviously this is hard to judge, but the article (from what I can tell) does not study that, so I wrote "a little misleading".
- j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago> If you (somehow) tie the bailouts to limiting short-distance flights, (...) I think that's what France did? > Using this reasoning for example will make flight subsidies anti-environmentally friendly and not neutral We have to reduce CO2 emissions by 7% a year (Germany, according to the IPCC). So besides laws and regulation, I'd argue that a crisis and the subsequently necessary bailouts are a good chance to force companies to do more. Before going bankrupt, they'd probably agree to the deal.