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Even in the US, most people (50+% of the population) certainly doesn't regularly (say, more than once a decade) travel by plane.
by tsimionescu 2y ago
Even in the US, most people (50+% of the population) certainly doesn't regularly (say, more than once a decade) travel by plane.
- renewiltord 2y ago49% in the last year according to this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/air-travelers-in-america-annual-survey/ https://www.airlines.org/dataset/air-travelers-in-america-an... Statista survey pre-pandemic says majority fly every year https://www.statista.com/statistics/316365/air-travel-frequency-us-by-age/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/316365/air-travel-freque... Americans fly quite often.
- tsimionescu 2y agoOh wow, I didn't imagine it's this many people. I stand corrected, thank you for looking up the numbers.
- timeon 2y agoOne of many reasons why per capita CO₂ emissions in US are 14.9t while in Germany, country that is always mentioned because they closed nuclear plants it is 'only' 8t (which is still higher than EU average).
- dwaite 2y agoFamilies tend to get spread out and vacations tend to be very short. There is a strong encouragement to meet for recognized holidays, so these are by far the busiest times at airports. Last year, the prediction was 4.7 million people in the US traveling by plane over the thanksgiving holiday, which demolishes the 1% comment immediately.
- dkdbejwi383 2y ago4.7m is ~0.05% of ~8bn
- aaomidi 2y agoIf you look at everything in the larger group of world population you’ll end up with a lot of useless info.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoYou are greatly underestimating how common it is for Americans to travel by plane. Almost half of Americans fly at least once a year. It is sufficiently inexpensive that almost everyone can readily afford to.