Flying commercial flights is similar to taking a bus in the air. Hopefully most Americans can fly private within the next 30 years. Cheap energy is the unlock! Let’s have an exciting future!

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Flight is heavily subsidized.
Pound for pound traveling by bus is way more efficient

Subsidized how? I mean I have my own opinion as to how it’s subsidized, but I’m not sure it’s what you have in mind.

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Right. US airports are (mostly) public utilities, so they are funded by the municipalities or states. Airlines do pay to use them (passenger and landing charges). So airports are not subsidized - they are publicly-funded infrastructure, whose usage then actually gets charged to users. #1

It's not just an opinion

https://simpleflying.com/aviation-fuel-taxation-guide/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-awards-nearly-1-billion-airports-infrastructure-grants-2023-02-27/