Especially young people like to fly: is it a shame to fly during the summer holidays? None!

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Aircraft emits much more CO₂ than any other mode of transport. Therefore, if you want to fight climate change, it is better to stay on the ground. But fewer and fewer people are ashamed of air travel.

Only 39 percent think you should feel guilty when traveling by plane. This was demonstrated in a survey conducted by the LeeWas institute on behalf of Tammedia and “20 Minuten”. Women are slightly more embarrassed than men, at 43 percent. 58 percent of those surveyed don’t want to do anything with flying embarrassment.

This situation was also reflected in the Zurich Airport figures: In May, airport movements reached 90 percent of the 2019 level. The aviation industry is finally leaving the corona pandemic behind.

Get on a half plane

According to the survey, almost half of those surveyed plan to travel by plane for vacation this summer. What is striking is that 59 percent of those who prefer airplanes as a means of transportation are mostly young people. Only 33 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds think you should feel guilty when flying. Generation Z is thought to be particularly dependent on climate change.

Cathérine Hartmann, an environmental psychologist at the University of Zurich, explains this phenomenon in “Tagesanzeiger” this way: “Here we have the same cognitive dissonance as smoking, for example: people know it’s harmful, but they do it anyway.”

lazy reasons

The problem is that flying is covered. And many would justify air travel: “My neighbor flies five times a year too.” Boys still have a lot to catch up on – they’ve been restrained especially during the pandemic. Mobility is also simply a basic human need, they say.

Blick also recently spoke with a tourism expert about the embarrassment of flying. According to Florian Eggli, 45, a tourism lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), flight embarrassment still exists. “People continue to pamper themselves with air travel – but with a guilty conscience,” Eggli was convinced. The tourism expert observes that many people travel longer but less frequently. (kae)

Source :Blick