Goodbye to low cost flights: “They will disappear in 2030”. All ‘fault’ of climate change

Airlines For Europe, the organization representing airlines, said it bluntly. Here because

ROME – Tremble lovers of low-cost escapades abroad: you have 11 years to travel the world…before saying goodbye to low-cost flights.

ALL ‘THE FAULT’ OF CLIMATE CHANGE

All the ‘fault’, so to speak, of theFift For 55, the European Union’s package of reforms to combat climate change and encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions . The cost for airlines of complying with European regulations will,in 2030, be up to 14 times higher than that incurred in 2019. This is said Airlines For Europe, the main association representing EU airlines. Data reported by sito futuroprossimo.it. The repercussions on consumers are therefore inevitable. The forecasts speak of a reduction in air traffic within the EU by more than 8% in 2030 and by around 12% in 2035, compared to a scenario in which these reforms had not been implemented.

FEWER LOW-COST FLIGHTS COST BUT MORE PRIVATE JETS FOR THE SUPER-RICH

If on the one hand flights for the medium-low segments of the population are decreasing, on the other hand private flights for high-income groups are increasing which, paradoxically, “emit up to 14 times more CO2 per passenger than a scheduled flight “, writes Gianluca Riccio on futuroprossimo.it. The reason? “Many wealthy jet users will simply remain indifferent to the continued increases in the price of emission permits – writes Ricco -. According to a recent study commissioned by Greenpeace to CE Delft, the number of private flights in Europe has increased< strong> from just under 120,000 in 2020 to more than half a million in 2022.More than half of these flights are short and medium haul, comparable to the distance between Paris and Marseille (around 750 km), which in the vast majority of cases can reasonably be replaced by alternative means of transport”.