Re:Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from Califo...
by wkat4242 on Thursday August 22, 2024 @12:02PM
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Part of this has a decent reason: If fuel is much cheaper in e.g. Dubai, airlines will chock their planes full of fuel instead of the optimised amount, leading to overburning of fuel due to excessive transportation of it.
And the opposite, they will skimp on fuel going inbound to there. Of course fuel qty is the captain's decision, however a lot of airlines already pressure those. As one example Ryanair had a "list of shame" of captains bringing too much safety fuel in their eyes.
Re:Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1k miles from Califo...
by maxehmookau on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:16AM
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The idea that airlines can pressure captains in to doing _anything_ is terrifying and should be utterly outlawed.
Various attempts to work round this without rewriting the convention have been discussed, e.g. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn00... but I don't think they've got anywhere.
The US _might_ be able to tax fuel on domestic flights, but that would result in the California to Seattle flight going via Canada to avoid the tax.