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Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel? by Cenk on Monday September 02, 2019 @07:14PM (#20862407)
Isn’t most of the cost of a flight already taxes and duties? I recently booked a 700€ flight from Europe to Latin America, and out of the 700 over 400 were taxes and airport charges.
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Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel? by esotericn on Monday September 02, 2019 @07:18PM (#20862430)
Airport charges aren't taxes.

Aside from that - sure, there are taxes on flying. Are they enough to offset or capture the carbon emissions (at a rate higher than 100% if we want this to be progressive), and is the money going towards either doing that or researching future methods of how to do that?

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