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[...] Under these "use it or lose it" regulations, prior to the pandemic carriers had to utilise at least 80pc of their scheduled take-off and landing slots.
This was revised to 50pc as coronavirus saw travel become increasingly difficult – but airlines are still struggling to hit this target.
As a result of Lufthansa Group's latest figures, the Belgian federal government has written to the European Commission, calling for a change to the rules on maintaining slots.
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Lufthansa Group Confirmed that 18,000 Flights had been Flown Empty to Keep Airport Slots
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 11 2022, @07:46PM (13 children)
Set up a lottery for vaccinated people that lets them win a free trip on one of these flights, so the airplanes won't be empty. Bonus: anti-vaxxers will have something new to complain about.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Snotnose on Tuesday January 11 2022, @09:15PM (3 children)
I actually like this idea. It costs $x to fly an mt plane from point A to point B. You need $y percent capacity to make a profit. Carrying passengers who aren't paying (e.g. dead weight) really costs you nothing (how much does a, um, pick a plane, any plane. 747). A 747 weighs 400,000 pounds mt carrying 1 average american (250 lbs). We haven't even gotten to the fuel cost. The American is essentially free compared to the fuel/gate fees.
Average non-American, drop the dead weight by 40 kilos, and the math really doesn't change much. Except for the pounds to kilos, which most 'mericans can't do.
Turns out it's actually profitable to carry the average American for free from point A to point B to keep your gate slot
Forget the past, you can't change it. Forget the future, you cant predict it. Forget the present, I didn't get you one
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snotnose on Tuesday January 11 2022, @09:46PM (2 children)
There I go again. mt = empty, I was a welder in my teen years and it's a habit I can't seem to break in my retirement years.
for those of you who don't follow me (and really, why would you?) welders mark empty tanks mt. I can't seem to break the habit. My bad, so sorry.
Forget the past, you can't change it. Forget the future, you cant predict it. Forget the present, I didn't get you one
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 11 2022, @11:49PM
No worries, I just assumed it was some texting slang that slipped in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12 2022, @03:45PM
No worries, I just assumed it was another boring asshole thinking everyone's interested in their shitty personal story they tack onto every interaction. My bad.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 11 2022, @10:32PM (5 children)
Fully vaccinated and even boosted people are the majority of COVID infections now, Einstein. Omicron sees your vaccines and raises.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 11 2022, @11:04PM
Gotta admire the confidence to let everyone know how dumb you are!
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 11 2022, @11:12PM
What do hospitalization and death rates look like for those groups?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12 2022, @01:13AM (1 child)
You don't know what you're missing out on man. I just had my 15th booster. Vaxx is the only way to fly.
Alternatively, my bourgeois interests are advanced by waves of sweet Malthusian death, so I got vaccinated so that I could go maskless and spread it to more old, useless proles who just sit on social security leaching my tax dollars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12 2022, @03:50PM
> leaching
mytheir tax dollars that they paid into their whole lifeFTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12 2022, @11:45AM
And it only took vaccinating over 80% of the population to break even. That means the unvaccinated are five times more likely to become infected than vaccinated, which we knew.
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Wednesday January 12 2022, @12:22AM (2 children)
I don't understand the need to bring the vaccines into this. The vaccines aren't preventing the spread of the virus.
Sure, they help you recover and maybe prevent you from getting seriously ill, but it doesn't make it wise to travel just because you have the vaccine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12 2022, @04:18PM
I propose that we limit posting on SoylentNews to those vaccinated against stupidity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 12 2022, @07:08PM
"Sure, they help you recover and maybe prevent you from getting seriously ill"
no they don't, you retarded slave.