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Planes are cheaper as a function of the infrastructure needed to allow their use (? Feel free to correct me). As long as we allow airplanes companies to not pay for the long term externalities that they are creating planes will stay cheaper.



In the EU, jet fuel isn't taxed at all, quite the contrast with gasoline prices.




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