hold on, what kind of emissions attribution is happening to make business class travel less CO2-efficient than economy class travel?? your ass weighs the same no matter which chair you sit in
to everyone who responds with "it's proportional to square footage": nobody flies planes configured for business class only. "if the moon was made of cheese we couldn't mine 3He from it" but in reality it isn't so why should I accept this assumption?
i stand corrected, your ass does weigh more in a first class seat (if you add the weight of the seat in) https://ruby.social/@halfbyte/117118864402458450
@whitequark compared to how much the plane and fuel weighs, the total uhm, biomass in the plane is really not that much
interestingly, the infographic above doesn't look like a very close match to IATA class factors (below; which i didn't know about) but is a pretty close match to "going from economy to business class seat effectively doubles passenger weight"
for a B737-600, it's 36 t of plane and 13 t of pax (and then fuel)
fuel load significantly varies with passenger count
@whitequark the max weight is 65.5t so only ~20% flesh 😅
@thomasfuchs 737-600 is a regional jet, you wouldn't normally load it to the brim with fuel
@whitequark apparently that specific plane isn't popular with airlines because of passenger count and routes for that sort of range, and flying shorter trips isn't as efficient as with some other planes.
we live super close to an airliner graveyard (they park unused planes there), can see it from my house... should try to go there some time and make some photos
