With the recent bankruptcy filings of six airlines (ATA, Oasis Hong
Kong, Aloha, Skybus, Frontier and Champion) in the past two weeks, the
issues of climate change and peak oil dominate media reporting. Local
journalists are
calling transportation planners and policy-makers to task,
suggesting that their focus should not be committing more resources to
infrastructure developments that support the airline industry as it
exists today. Air travel has been subsidized by government, but
environmental
realities can no longer be ignored.[
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