Actually, air travel for work is about 10% of the trips, while tourism is 90%. But super flyers represent a disproportionate amount of the leisure flights.
So most people would hardly notice (those who fly more often can afford the tax, and the others don't fly enough).
You have some stats here: https://neweconomics.org/2025/06/introducing-the-ultra-frequent-flyer
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Playing card sleeves?
i finally received my crowdfunded copy of Earthborne Rangers, which due to its environmentally friendly goal, made all their cards without the plastic core cards usually have in order to spare the environment. they're all floppy and fragile, so they definitely need sleeves. only... there's around 1300 cards.
So the game producer reduces their environmental footprint, but because of that, customers have to buy plastic sleeves.
My question is: what is the environmental footprint of these sleeves? Because if it's higher that the original one, that's pretty stupid.
But anyway: as commented, I doubt that there are any European manufacturers doing that. So you're only options are likely either to make them yourself, or buy Chinese ones.
Note that even the ones in your local shop are likely made in China.
What's the footprint of the sleeves? Seems that the creators kind of messed up on that one.
No clue where you can buy them, though. I doubt these are produced in Europe, so China or diy are probably the only solutions.
You typically don't pay these taxes where you register your plane, but where you land/take off and in which country you fly.
So it may reduce the number of flights (esp. empty flights), which is actually good.
If the money is reinvested to develop high speed trains, the impact on tourism would even be minimal.
Wrong. It would mainly come from companies flying consultants around for their daily work.
You may fly once? Twice? Thrice ? For your holidays. Some people fly every single week.
And it's mostly American firms. So make them pay.
In business terms, this is called "Cost of operation".
Well. No more Vueling for me 🤷
We need more blue turtles...
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You should really learn History beyond your belly button.
Lots of fascist regimes throughout History and pretty much worldwide.
But Germany is one of the only countries to actually pay for it and go through a very long mea culpa, which is incidentally the reason why they side with Israel on this one.