Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path

Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by OrangeMango on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:20AM (#21473368)

> I've been thinking about this a lot trying to root out the unintended consequences of such a plan, but I can't think of any.

Record keeping, administration, etc.

You could replace it all with simple calculations:

Landing Tax: (tax rate) * (landing weight) * (distance traveled within US airspace)

Takeoff Tax: (tax rate) * (takeoff weight)

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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by criddell on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:24AM (#21473402)

Record keeping is already in place for the air miles programs. It's a solved problem.

The two taxes you listed do nothing to make people who travel more pay more per mile than somebody doing their one flight a year to Disney.

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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by jungturk on Thursday November 07, 2019 @11:59AM (#21474905)

What's the motivation behind making it a progressive scale per mile?

Is there a reason the Nth mile should be taxed more than the 1st when the environmental impact of the Nth mile and the 1st are the same?

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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by blankley on Thursday November 07, 2019 @12:47PM (#21475388)

In fact the impact of the 1st is substantially greater, because of the energy required for takeoff.

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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by ElFitz on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:28AM (#21473437)

And since takeoff weight is linked to both passenger count & traveled distance (amount of fuel), it too accounts for distance!

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