Some relatively unhelpful commentary from Aunty (Auntie? does it matter?) about yesterday's Tyndall Centre report on the impact of air travel [PDF].
Two main problems:
- Doesn't the hitch from Frankfurt to Basel make the cheap flights trip a bit of a nonsense?
- As usual no mention is made of the fact that airlines are subsidised not just in fuel, but in the regional airports which they fly to. Airport tax is kept low, apparently for the sake of the economic vitality of the region. So what about subsidising rail in the same way? Just how is it less essential to that same vitality?
Ah well.
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