Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by dingaling on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:19AM
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> I wish it was mandatory for every student to visit two or three very different countries during their studies.
That was common in the 80s & 90s but we did it wearing a backpack and hopping on buses and coaches and sleeper trains; air travel was much too expensive back then.
That's in contrast to modern Ryanair-style stag-party 'tourism' where students descend on a city for a few days and then zip back home.
Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by Iv on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:33AM
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Buses and backpack won't expose you to different culture. Esp, in a country as big as the US. Unless you live close to the southern border, you won't even be exposed to people speaking a different language, which is an important thing to experience.
Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall
by PeterStuer on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @02:50AM
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We travel to get away from the hell holes we created locally, just to then turn those destinations into carbon copies of the places we were trying to escape from.
I wish it was mandatory for every student to visit two or three very different countries during their studies.
I understand the emissions are problematic and we need to cut them down. I like the idea of forbidding or de-incentivizing air travel on short trips when a rail alternative exists. I just wish we put that at the bottom of the priority list. Remove coal plants and fuel cars first.