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[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 30 points 10 hours ago (12 children)

Eh. My impression is that most civilian air travel is not truly necessary. Tourism, and stuff that can be done with remote work.

I worry about stuff like food prices for the poor. Somebody not being able to fly on vacation - not so much.

[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I’m thinking of a scenario of a dying family member and not being able to make it to them before they pass away.

Flying isn’t just for business or tourism. But at the same time, people have had the luxury to be able to live far in distance from their families and friends, because it might just be a short flight away.

In California, I’ve heard of people working in Silicon Valley and living in Burbank, flying every day to go to work or maybe twice a week.

That luxury needs to stop. But it should not happen all of a sudden.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

It's Europe, just take the train.

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

The shitty train service is literally one of the reasons I started flying. Once you travel >300km it's faster, more reliable (at least compared to German trains) and costs about the same.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, very soon. They're building it now.

Excited to report they're finally building Rail Baltica. When it's ready in a decade, perhaps flying will be more expensive than the train finally. Hopefully enough to offset the time lost by taking the train.

Europe isn't all connected to the same rail network even if people online would like you to believe that.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No trains to the north of Norway

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

Yeah you poetically don’t wanna do that. It’s far and cold and charging stations are limited

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

He did say most

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