Originally Posted by
andymartin
'If we all flew less'??
So the family who take their one foreign holiday per year by plane shouldn't go anywhere? Absolute nonsense.
If less flying took place might be a better way of looking at it. When you look a cargo operations so many of the ad hoc flights involve long environmentally damaging positioning flights. Look for example at some of Atlas Air and National's positioning legs. A lot of the air cargo uplift can be layed at the feet of "Chinese Tat" that western consumers apparently "need" delivered next day. Great for the industry, apalling for the environment.
Then the mushrooming of bizjet flying needs curbing, probably through a global agreement on penal taxes, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.