Thread by @timparrique

Important numbers about inequalities in flying.

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If the right to fly was equally divided among everyone, this would give us 0.6 flights per year.

Of course it is not. In fact, only very few people flies.

10 countries account for 60% of all flights, with the UK, the US, China, Germany, and France alone representing 33% of all flyers.

In England, half of people never flies, and out of the people who do, most of them fly once a year. But when looking at flights, only 20% of them are taken by these majority who flies only once a year. Most flights are taken by people who fly several times.

The richer you are, the more you spend on flying.

The top 20% richest households account for 52% of total expenditure on air travel in the EU.

The richer you get, the more planes you take, and this regardless of nationality.

Take-home message: aviation remains a luxury service, and we should take inequalities into account when we discuss the (necessary) degrowth of that sector.

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