Comment by beembeem
4 years ago
I think the thinking of the prior poster here is
1) it's not just you, it's your partner too. So that's two seats x # flights/yr.
2) with the extra seat miles you are occupying, airlines can sustain their existing routes/itineraries or expand them if they're at capacity.
At a larger scope it can be viewed as: will the airline fly more flights with its existing fleet? Will the airline buy more aircraft to fly more flights? If yes to either, then your argument breaks down.
What are the chances that our scheduling a flight that was already scheduled to fly 6-9 months prior caused the airline to add another route?
What do you think would be the chances of a flight taking off empty, day after day, without the airline cancelling it?
I fly for both business and leisure myself, but arguing that "the plane will take off with or without me on it" is beyond ridiculous.
Unless you have your own private plane, the airplane would just as much take off without you as Google would still be running servers whether you used it or not.
Are you alone going to make a difference by not flying? Like that neocon anti-environmental Obama said “we aren’t going to save the planet by throwing a bottle in the recycling bin”
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You know, if there are enough people like you then you can generate a lot of additional demand for flights, and an airline will actually add flights to their schedule to accommodate that. The law of supply and demand still works here.
Having said that: fuck carbon footprint!
Yes, I’m sure there are lots of people like me who are willing to throw away everything they own that won’t fit in three suitcases and travel around the US for half the year.
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