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Merrick
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flying and poverty
Mar 09, 2009, 14:19
shanshee_allures wrote:
A three day train journey to Morrocco? How the hell much would that cost compared to cattle class at easy jet?


If you think of three days there and the same back, then that's a week of holiday. So whislt the flight would be cheaper, there'd be all the costs of hotels and whatnnot at the other end to factor in, whereas in the train scneario the journey would *be* the holiday.

shanshee_allures wrote:
Easy jet is for the proles not the nice well to do middle class folks like she and hers.
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It's not, actually. As I've said elsewhere on this site:

Firstly, climate change is a global phenomenon, and in global terms - the only way to look at climate change - anyone who flies is not poor.

Most people will never fly out of straightforward poverty. And if they did fly, the climate couldn't take it. It is intrinsically unsustainable and inequitable.

But even in the UK, cheap flights aren't the poor starting to fly, they're the rich binge-flying.

Even on budget airlines, around 80 per cent of trips are by people in the top three social classes, A, B and C1. Most of the growth predicted for 2030 by the government will be the wealthiest 10 per cent flying overseas at weekends.

People with second homes abroad take an average of six return flights a year. The richest 20% of the population take half of all flights, while the bottom 28% only take 8%.

The aviation industry's own figures show that the poorest 10 per cent of people rarely fly at all. Nor are they likely to fly over the next 30 years, because of the overall cost of trips.

The average income of a Stansted user is over £50,000 - and that's a 'budget airport'!

Budget airline Ryanair doesn't advertise at all in the Sun, Mirror, News of The World or the Star. It spends the majority of its press-advertising budget on a single publication - The Daily Telegraph.

Most people in Britain won't fly at all this year.
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