the article states very clearly 1% take 20% of trips, which means the people who take only 1 -3 trips a year are NOT the people being talked about,
what did I say….I realize you don’t actually read anything anyone else posts but what I said was the folks who are taking cheap trips to Europe due so numerous times a year. I remember folks from the company I worked with in London who were flying to Spain or Portugal once a month at least. It was that cheap. Like a weekend at the cottage. That is what the chart is suggesting on average people are taking more flights and staying less time. 1% of the UK is 660,000 people, assuming 200 people per flight thats still 3300 flights.
yer also conflating "commercial" flights for holiday vs people who like Jeffery Epstein OWN their plane and can fly at will, which is why the term "international" was used not the term "commercial".
Don’t be an imbecile. International simply means a flight that is from the UK to another country (i.e. Europe as I said). “International” is the opposite of “Domestic”, “commercial” is the opposite of “private”. Did the article say anything about private flights? No it did not.
rich people with their own plane make many more flights each month than the people going on holidays once or twice a year .......
I suppose you have some facts and figures to back that up right? If you want to make crap up have at it but don’t expect anybody here to buy it.
As to my comparison between air flight for numerous passengers versus vehicle travel instead my reasoning follows:
The energy intensity of flying has been steadily dropping over the last few decades. At this point in time Cars and airplanes burn about the same number of BTU/passenger mile as shown in this chart. That being the case if you have a plane with 200 passengers travelling 500 miles versus those same 200 passengers pairing up and each driving the same distance the equivalency where X is number of BTU’s burned would be for airplane travel 500X whereas for the equivalent of those folks driving by car 100*500X. For total energy usage the plane flight wins simply because it can transport more people.
If you look at CO2 according to the EIA jet fuel produces 21.1 lbs of CO2 per gallon whereas fuel for cars is 19.6 lbs. Looking at averages for flights that would get from UK to Europe we are talking about 10 lb/mi of fuel burned. Using 6.69 US gal/ lb of fuel that works out to 1.5 US gal/mi flown. For a flight of 500 miles then the CO2 emitted would be 21.1*1.5*500 or 15,825 lbs of CO2. For a car that gets on average 20 miles per gallon that’s 0.05 gal/mile so the CO2 emitted over that distance would be 0.05 * 500*19.6 or 490 lbs of CO2. But we are talking about 100 vehicles taking that trip so comparing apples to apples we have 49,000 lbs of CO2 emitted by vehicle versus 15,825 lbs of CO2 emitted by plane for the same number of people traveling the same distance by car versus plane.