Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

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They are filling seats that would likely otherwise be empty and which are being sold off cheap. The plane would be flying anyway. If a half empty plane was flying we wouldn't even have heard about it.

How full a plane is is used to determine demand on a route and thus how frequenve flights are scheduled by the airline. eg If every flight is 95% full then airline might schedule an additional flight next time the organise schedules. If flights struggle to get 50% full they'll cut back of scheduled flights.

Basically airlines respond to demand. Higher demand means they'll increase provision means more flights means more CO2 and pollutants.