High fuel prices and passenger delays as result of EU’s EES entry-exit system leading to problems, says trade body

Europe’s smaller airports may not survive if jet fuel shortages triggered by the Middle East crisis lead to widespread route cancellations, the industry’s trade body has warned.

Although airlines insist there are currently no supply problems within the normal four- to six-week horizon, the US-Israel war on Iran and the effective closure of the strait of Hormuz have doubled the price of jet fuel, prompting some carriers to cancel flights.

The Airports Council of Europe said regional airports were the most exposed and faced an “existential threat” if airlines cut capacity and raised fares, as demand on their routes was generally more price-sensitive – demonstrated when Lufthansa axed 20,000 summer flights operated by its regional subsidiary, CityLine.

  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    You mean “flying” here.

    Obviously

    Flying frequently generates excessive amounts of CO2. That is killing other people. Killing other people for one’s own fun or comfort is not OK.

    Everything we do affect other people, in a way or another, we cannot think otherwise.

    Now the next person will come and say, that’s not an individual problem, but a collective or societal one. But lifting the decision to a collective or political level, doesn’t change the fact by one iota that frequently flying generates lots of CO2, and lots of CO2 kills people.

    Flying generates only about 2% (against a 72% of the cars for example) on a global basis (%3 if you consider only Europe) of the CO2.

    I agree that even if relatively small it is not to understimate but we can probably have better results if we choose to attack other aspects.

    The only collective solution can be to have collective boundaries about that.

    Or maybe ask for solution that benefit everyone instead of “punishing” only someone, like work from home for everyone who can. Or maybe to just stop to have a NIMBY attitude for everything (be a new solar field, a new railways or a wind turbine farm). Or maybe ask to make it easy to install solar/wind power generation plants for domestic usage.

    There are a lot of things we can colletively ask to make thing better for everyone instead of saying that someone else should be stop to do something.