Originally Posted by
ATNotts
The problem is this. If every sector (road transport, marine, power generation etc) takes that same line then the crisis will develop to a point where we reach tipping point in short order.
All sectors, including aviation have to do their bit. Nobody (apart from Thunberg and the extremists groups) are after banning aviation, though personally I would make sure business aviation were treated commensurate to the disproportionate amount of environmental damage it does relative to commercial air transport.
Agreed and ignoring the potential crisis (real or fictional) combined with wider changing economic measures, newer technologies and earning models is akin to Luddism ( Manchester in particular needs to revisit its history perhaps)
Some of those technologies have marked impacts on the way we all do business , and NOT getting involved ( as many towards the right of domestic politics currently lean) may find they have missed many opportunities at the alter of oil and gas corporations and their current vested interests.
Sure enough they ain’t working for the little guy/gal !
Sort of also agree that the frequent flyers , the associated bribes so called “awards” to fly via hubs may need some reconsideration in the not to distant future ( May be unpalatable for some ) .Those implied extra miles travelled may need to have a tariff not the current tax advantage!
Travel may need to become just a little more expensive again; especially discretionary imho- whilst businesses have already found out that much of the expensive travel budgets are and were largely unnecessary.
Queue the relatively slow recovery in those sectors (caveat a few extraordinary flows -namely Microsoft kiddies from India to look after your company servers for a 20% saving in your wage bill)
Note Sunak has done nothing to reduce this trade in migration flows as it serve his own and family interests.
Do these sound like rants from just stop oil maybe at the fringes . however again just to be clear we are at the beginning of a massive change in the economic models from those of the twentieth century.
BTW I am far from anti- migration , a supporter of restored FOM at the earliest opportunity , and that we have a fully functioning home office and vetting policies for those entering the country .
Now back to aviation , the colour of uniforms, that microwave meal and if Reus/Gerona or Barcelona gets you to Sitges or Salou the quicker.