Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path

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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