Short flights by football club players
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Investigation shows that football clubs are taking very short flights to away games
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1749985/P...
Being millionaires they are exempt from needing to consider the environment, just like well known actors, royals and politicians?
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1749985/P...
Being millionaires they are exempt from needing to consider the environment, just like well known actors, royals and politicians?
Dunno, but I will be writing a strongly worded email to my local MP. (Plus I might mention the water companies dumping s
t into the rivers and seas. big and small corporations also polluting our rivers, people going on unnecessary holidays to Spain, any V8, any car over 200bhp, ULEZ - making people go on longer journeys, erupting volcanoes, China, India and the USA the biggest polluters by a long way, wood burners, plastic pollution, crop burning in SE Asia, pointless rocket launches etc)
Football is boring anyway. Australian rules or Hurling - now there is a sport!
To add. It's not just the players though is it. Support staff, press, family. It's either fly or four coach loads of people. I doubt the pollutants are greater flying.
If you could afford it you would do it. Don't kid us and yourself.
t into the rivers and seas. big and small corporations also polluting our rivers, people going on unnecessary holidays to Spain, any V8, any car over 200bhp, ULEZ - making people go on longer journeys, erupting volcanoes, China, India and the USA the biggest polluters by a long way, wood burners, plastic pollution, crop burning in SE Asia, pointless rocket launches etc)Football is boring anyway. Australian rules or Hurling - now there is a sport!
To add. It's not just the players though is it. Support staff, press, family. It's either fly or four coach loads of people. I doubt the pollutants are greater flying.
If you could afford it you would do it. Don't kid us and yourself.
Edited by bongtom on Friday 24th March 06:08
bongtom said:
To add. It's not just the players though is it. Support staff, press, family. It's either fly or four coach loads of people. I doubt the pollutants are greater flying.
If you could afford it you would do it. Don't kid us and yourself.
Normal cars (I.e. not footballers cars) would be slightly less polluting.If you could afford it you would do it. Don't kid us and yourself.
Coaches would be vastly less polluting.
All per passenger:
Domestic flight - 133g/km co2
Car - 85-45g/km co2 (assuming 2+ people per car)
Coach - 27g/km co2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-493...
And, no, I wouldn’t fly if I could. Once you take in to account transfer times and faffing about with security it’s unlikely to save any time. Even the most extreme case, Newcastle to Bournemouth, is 6 hours drive or 3h30 to fly plus however long it takes to get to the airport.
There is an argument to fly when your doing it instead of driving yourself or it is cheaper. That is not why football clubs are doing it.
Oliver Hardy said:
Investigation shows that football clubs are taking very short flights to away games
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1749985/P...
Being millionaires they are exempt from needing to consider the environment, just like well known actors, royals and politicians?
? What about other ppl who take internal UK flights? https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1749985/P...
Being millionaires they are exempt from needing to consider the environment, just like well known actors, royals and politicians?
Are they allowed to, or is only footballers who are not allowed to?
irc said:
Big enough island that flights save significant time. Aberdeen London. 90m flight. Train 7hrs+. Plane for me.
It's not really 90 mins though is it? You still have to actually get to London from whichever orbiting airport you go to. I get that flying is more convenient for some than other methods, but the number of people who need that convenience must be vanishingly small and is the pollution short flights cause worth it for that?
ZedLeg said:
Domestic flights should be banned imo. We’re not that big an Island.
What would you do with the Scottish Islanders, who say have to travel Inverness/Glasgow/Edinburgh/Aberdeen for hospital appointments?1 hour drive to Stornoway Wait an hour to board ferry at Ullapool - 3-4 hours crossing to Ullapool, drive an hour and a half to Inverness. In reality you'd add more time on each leg for delays, and then you have to get home again.
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