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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by fulafel on Monday March 16, 2020 @03:03PM (#22596213)
It's basically a doomed industry in the medium to long term (unless humanity collectively decides to fly straight into a wall wrt global CO2 emissions). Any politician using tax money to prop this up is acting irresponsibly and unethically.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by spaceandshit on Monday March 16, 2020 @04:29PM (#22597292)
However, people need to travel. And they will travel. Calling it a doomed industry is bogus.
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Re:Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily la... by fulafel on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:11AM (#22601916)
There is a demand for air travel obviously but no absolute need. We don't have to stop it completely, just most of it.
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