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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
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[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

how commercial jets vs. private jets vs. light aircraft fare

Just looked some up, they're approximately, per passenger:

  • -, bus, ~100...300mpg/pp
  • Commercial jet, -, ~60...120mpg/pp
  • Ultralight, motorbike, train, ~50mpg/pp
  • Light aircraft, car, ~15...60mpg/pp
  • Private jet, limo, ~5...50mpg/pp
  • Fighter jet, monster truck, ~0.5mpg/pp

The more passengers, the more efficient.

So, fully loaded, there isn't that much difference between a private jet, a limo, a car, light aircraft, ultralight, motorbike, train, or low range commercial jet.

But if it's a single person, a private jet would use 10 times more fuel than a motorbike.

A fully loaded bus, still wins hands down.