About 34 percent of Austrians never get on a plane. Half of the population aged 16 and over fly once a year or less, and one in six people fly several times a year or more. Especially frequent flyers have many business flights. The highest percentages of people who never fly are found in the population of small communities and the generation aged 60 and over – 48 percent in this age group never fly.
“In Austria, the group of those who never fly is twice as large as the group of those who fly often,” explains Lina Mosshammer of the Verkehrsclub Österreich (VCÖ).
In figures, the representative survey by research institute Marktopinie gives the following picture: 34 percent of the population aged 16 and older never fly, 14 percent fly several times a year and two percent several times a month or more. The largest group, 49 percent, fly once a year or less.
Especially frequent flyers have many business flights. While 28 percent of the working group never fly, 43 percent of the non-working group never fly. “
The climate balance of air travel is bad
In addition to the high CO2 emissions, there are also so-called non-CO2 effects, which, according to a study by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), cause two-thirds of the climate-damaging effects of air traffic. These include particulate matter and nitrous oxide emissions, which are especially harmful when emitted at high altitudes. Alternative fuels would not be enough to get air traffic on track for climate change. The climate crisis can only be overcome with less air traffic.
Source: Krone
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