Is the growth of air travel sustainable?

28% YES 72% NO

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• For all his statistics, Garry Cullen talks in percentages and not in emissions levels. There's no mention of reduction targets. Why isn't the airline industry taking any responsibility on climate change? As Oisin Coghlan points out, the 2% figure the airline industry claims is its share of greenhouse gas emissions is out of date and a definite underestimation. Every industry needs to do its part to tackle climate change. Air travel won't disappear completely, but we need to travel by train where possible and cut out unnecessary long haul flights. Shopping trips to New York, for example, are completely decadent and wasteful. And governments need to make it cheaper for us to travel over land and sea than by air. It makes no environmental sense for it to be cheaper to fly to Kerry than take a train.
  Paul Corbett  Ireland
• yes
  john o connell  Ireland
• Yes - As discussed by Garry Cullen of Aer Arann, air travel is sustainable
  Sean Clancy  Ireland
• Yes, the growth of air travel is sustainable without doubt.
  Nick  Ireland
• Sustainability of airtravel goes hand-in-hand with national wealth growth
  liam lalor  Ireland
• yes
  anthony kiely  Ireland
• YES
  Ger Myers  Ireland
• It's time the Government started to question the alleged connection between human activity and climate change. I for one, as a meteorologist, don't believe there's any solid evidence for it. I think it's astonishing that extremely damaging economic policies are justified on the basis of some very poor computer models with major known defects. This is a political movement that has nothing to do with science. As a scientist, I find it disturbing that science can be dictated to by politics. When this has happened in the past, it has been most unhealthy.
  Norman Stewart  Ireland
• I vote yes
  Emma Sullivan  Ireland
• Responsibly planned air transport growth is the way forward for the future. It is totally unrealistic to contemplate to an actual reduction in flying in the future.
  Kate  Ireland