Does "conservation advocacy" mean environment stuff? The carbon emissions of unproductive flying must be immense.
Airlines should let people just pay the fare and get the miles without flying. Win for the people (saves their time and money), win for the airline (they save on marginal price of jet fuel and food/drinks), and win for the environment.
Many airlines will let you buy miles, but (at least at American Airlines), these don't count towards status. I wonder why they don't offer that. Maybe to make it seem less explicitly transactional? https://www.aa.com/aadvantage-program/buy-gift-transfer/en_U...
I don’t listen to greens ever since I moved back to my hometown to find they hadn’t raised the minimum wage in the decade I’d been gone or really do anything of note but hell so loudly about nuclear energy they split the vote so pro fracking ppl won and [checks notes] decriminalized weed?
(No rental protections, no reforms aside from ones like rebates for a hybrid that benefit rich white professor types)
We need to reward folks who go child free or car free as much as we reward companies that frack instead of blow coal.
Airlines should let people just pay the fare and get the miles without flying. Win for the people (saves their time and money), win for the airline (they save on marginal price of jet fuel and food/drinks), and win for the environment.