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Skybus, an airline that will make its inaugural flight in late May, hopes to bring this kind of travel within reach of almost every college student’s wallet, bringing to America what bargain-basement air carriers such as Ryanair brought to Europe: transcontinental flights at Fung-Wah prices—or less...
Skybus touts its jets as “the most modern, fuel-efficient… planes available today,” but the inescapable laws of physics and chemistry make air travel an incredibly energy-intense means of travel. According to data published in the New York Times, a Boeing 747 crossing the Atlantic emits nearly 2,800 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) for each person on board, and USA Today reports that you would have to drive an SUV for a month to emit as much CO2 as a jetliner emits per person on a New York to Denver...
What’s even more worrisome is that when transatlantic air-travel is deregulated under the “Open Skies” treaty, which comes into effect in less than a year, traffic across the pond could increase by as much as 55 percent, according to estimates published in USA Today. The treaty will enable airlines to apply the ultra-cheap model to much longer, more heavily polluting flights...
...truth is that, low-cost airlines such as Skybus are also low-conscience airlines. The cost of air travel will be paid, if not by travelers, then by the environment. America should consider a way of factoring the externalities of air travel into the cost of a ticket, just has been proposed by the European Commission...
...travel is obviously too important to the world—economically and socially—to be banned outright, but it should be priced proportionally to the havoc it wreaks on our environment...