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> To be honest, I'm confused by the amount of air travel that is still going on. If locking down large swathes of most countries is on the cards, why is there any air travel happening? Why was there a high profile diplomatic visit to India being planned? Are the benefits from all these plane trips really outweighing the costs? We may as well be trying to evolve COVID to sneak past quarantines. How is it acceptable to scuttle the economy in response to COVID, why are there still plane flights 12 months in to the pandemic?

I think the main reason is because air travel is heavily used by rich people and the professional managerial class.

If you look at the response, the people who bore the brunt of the pain were working class people and small business owners. The professional managerial class was mostly fine, just slightly inconvenienced.

When a politician is making decisions, they can’t really emphathiz me with your small business or restaurant getting shut down, but they do know from first hand experience, how much of a pain it would be if they were not able to fly, and all their corporate, NGO, and lobbyist buddies also know the pain that they would feel from not being able to fly around to where they wanted.