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If an increase in pricing will lower demand and lead to fewer flights, how will those fewer flights be more polluting on a per-seat basis? Because the demand w
by rickdeckard 3y ago
If an increase in pricing will lower demand and lead to fewer flights, how will those fewer flights be more polluting on a per-seat basis?
Because the demand will be even lower than what the airline will offer?
- 34679 3y agoI believe their logic would be to take the total emissions of a given flight and divide it by the number of passengers.
- rickdeckard 3y agoYeah, so airlines would suddenly become unable to fill their planes AND unable to reduce the amount of flights or use smaller planes...? All these are characteristics of aviation already today. It'll be hard to find a business model as ruthless in terms of customer-commitment than aviation. -- So if the concern is that airlines will be unable to adapt to less business, I'd say: Let's find out. Oh. And let's remove the tax-exemption of Aviation fuel