Everything is in the question: we’ve all heard, during the pandemic, or at other times, of planes flying without any passenger to keep their slots and bet on future purchases of plane tickets to remain competitive. If many people decided to all of a sudden stop flying, what would it change in terms of the number of planes taking off? Would it be an effective solution to reduce the impact of the travel/flying industry? Thanks in advance!
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A lot of these empty flights is conducted with smaller airplanes. Depending on the terms of the slots they might also fly fewer departures then the slots provide them. In any case the empty planes use significantly less fuel. Most slots are also not so competitive that it makes sense to fly them empty to keep them. So if people stopped buying airplane tickets you would see a significant reduction in airplane departures, and a more significant reduction in fuel usage.
The long term impacts would be greater. With fewer people traveling there would be less reason to add new departures. So the airline industry would not grow as much. And even the existing departures can be cut down as they are no longer profitable. Why should they maintain a slot which they would not make profits on anyway? So the less people fly the fewer departures you get.
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