Planes are more efficient the farther the distance traveled! The average commercial flight was 900km for 2022. Planes still only account for 5% of the total emissions when including commercial, private, and transport flights and accounting for emissions from contrails. Now do that math for cars, trucks, and ground transport. Go ahead.
people use the fact that they travel quicker as a justification to go further away!
They absolutely do not. People choose their destination first and then they determine the mode of transport. No one changes their destination to someplace farther away because it takes less time to get there by plane than it does by driving.
Unless you think that the average American would travel 1900 miles by car (one way) for a one week vacation
They wouldn’t. I don’t see how that’s relevant. If someone needs to travel from CA to NYC for a trip, a car isn’t even an option for them. If someone wants to go from Alaska to Texas, a car isn’t an option for them. Even if you banned most commercial flights, that doesn’t change the calculus. It just makes the remaining flights more expensive and forces people to find alternatives to get there. If a family decides they want to go to Disney World for a vacation, they’re going to pick the only method of travel that’s practical. They’re not going to go to Six Flags instead because they can get there by car.
What are you talking about?!
Planes are more efficient the farther the distance traveled! The average commercial flight was 900km for 2022. Planes still only account for 5% of the total emissions when including commercial, private, and transport flights and accounting for emissions from contrails. Now do that math for cars, trucks, and ground transport. Go ahead.
They absolutely do not. People choose their destination first and then they determine the mode of transport. No one changes their destination to someplace farther away because it takes less time to get there by plane than it does by driving.
They wouldn’t. I don’t see how that’s relevant. If someone needs to travel from CA to NYC for a trip, a car isn’t even an option for them. If someone wants to go from Alaska to Texas, a car isn’t an option for them. Even if you banned most commercial flights, that doesn’t change the calculus. It just makes the remaining flights more expensive and forces people to find alternatives to get there. If a family decides they want to go to Disney World for a vacation, they’re going to pick the only method of travel that’s practical. They’re not going to go to Six Flags instead because they can get there by car.