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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think you need to be more specific with the query. If I’m the only passenger plus crew, yes. If the plane is full of people going to a place to help out, no. If this flight could be done by train without multiplying door-to-door travel time more than 2.5 times, yes. If my blood type or bone marrow was so rare I could save a life, I think I’d be okay again even if I was a lone passenger. There is plenty of gray here to consider.

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  • vitaminme@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still needs more context.

      Where are you going?

      What are you doing?

      Is this a reward for something?

      Are you saving a life?

      No context no answer

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• Ekpu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plain and simple: yes.

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would love to get to try the whole jet experience, but I am not interested in doing it regularly.

  I came as close as you can while flying normally during the start of the pandemic.

  I am an IT guy and was tasked with flying to one of the company owner’s country retreats with a new computer and set it up to be ready for the summer…

  I get to the airport, the main airport of Sweden, Arlanda, at 07:45 on a normal weekday.

  Attached is a photo of what the check in hall looked like…

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  Anyway, I get checked in and get to my gate, there are a few others there, my flight is called, I walk down and board the transfer bus, and the doors close behind me…

  I am the only one on the bus!

  I get to the aircraft, a Fokker F50, no company markings at all…

  A cute flight attendant welcome me onboard saying that I can pick any seat as I am the only passenger…

  And we fly away, it was super weird yet really cool.

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  • vitaminme@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have four private planes I’d like to fly.

      The Diamond Air DA62 - Just a gorgeous plane!

      The Grumman Goose - with a water landing

      The Cirrus Vision SF50 - A super tiny jet!

      A Dassult Falcon trijet - Trijets are cool!

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• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Regularly? Yes. A one-off? Not the biggest sin.

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• pohart@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is the jet going even if you don’t, with the same other passengers?

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  • vitaminme@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think this is the key. If the plane’s going anyway, the additional environmental impact of you being on it or not is essentially moot.

      As for whether the plane should be flying in the first place, well obviously not.

      If it helps you rationalise it at all, if anything you’re making the plane more efficient by essentially halving your friend’s carbon footprint.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then just go. You aren’t contributing to an increase or continuation of private flights by riding along in this case.

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• gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Absolutely. Usually we debate if it is ethical to fly at all with a normal plane.

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on who’s on board and what I’m flying into.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is unethical to fly on any planes.

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  • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    By extension it’s unethical to operate any powered vehicle, and by extension it’s unethical to use any device requiring (combustible) fuel and/or electricity.

    Electric planes exist, they’re just not very popular.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Planes don’t have the equivalent of a catalytic converter so their emissions are much worse and because they come out at altitude it makes them twice as damaging as the equivalent being released at ground level.

      Their fuel economy per passenger isn’t great either, you’ll burn less fuel per passenger driving to your destination if it’s a group of four in a V8 SUV or two person in a small car.

      You would also not travel thousands of km for a one week vacation if you did it by car instead of a plane, so you would reduce your fuel consumption even more.

      The vast majority of air traffic emissions are related to tourists (people like you and me, not people who own a private jet) and cargo transportation. In both cases the air is the worst mean of reaching a destination from an environmental perspective. People need to understand that it’s not sustainable to expect to travel all over the world quickly or to get something delivered from across the world in a few days.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The air force does it all the time

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• DreasNil@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Absolutely yes

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• remon@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nope.

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• O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  YES

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• Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anything to avoid dealing with the TSA, but I wouldn’t charter or own a private plane myself. Let the rich fucker I know pay for it, fuck him.

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