Ten years ago, it rarely came up on Germans news or forum chatter. Today? It's probably three or four times a month where some topic like 'restrictions on air travel' come up and get tossed around.
The general pro-environment position is that it'd be better if you triggered massive cost levels (fees or taxes) on air travel. In their mind, a trip for two to Thailand....ought to incur 500 to 700 Euro more, and that you'd limit yourself. Oddly, they never ask themselves.....would that extra fee/tax even be enough to hold back the 'bad-folks'.
Before Covid, about every five to six years....the number of passengers bumped up by one-third. Covid was a game-changer in halting that. It's a trend that has been in play since the 1970s.
What Germans are continuing to hear now? There's a fairly big push to end in-country flights.....which means if you lived in Hamburg, you'd have to travel via car, bus, or train to Stuttgart, or fly to Luxembourg, then take a 2nd leg to Stuttgart. I don't expect to happen in 2022, but within the next four years....it's likely to happen.
At the end of this discussion....there's some weird path of creation for new tax revenue.....which would just be the layered cost of fees on airline tickets. As long as you fly out of the 'playing-nations'.....the revenue will occur. If you got smart and staged your trip out of a non-player nation? Well....you'd avoid all this gimmick.
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