On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:36:24 +0000
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\11\20 10:45, tim... wrote:
except the plane would have flown whether he was on it or not

whereas your car would have gone nowhere

Right, because airlines make no attempt to match supply to demand?

Quite. The reason cloudless skies in summer over the SE is often a white haze
rather than a nice clear blue is because people like recliner think its
perfectly ok to fly 7K miles on holiday every few months. He probably thinks
the plane works on unicorn **** and moonbeams rather than 100+ tons of kerosene
per flight.