Well according to the current climate change crisis, that's one less airliner heating up the planet. This sacrifice is perhaps a benefit to saving the planet anyway.
Fantastic news for climate change activists I suppose.
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Fantastic news? I would rather concentrate on the other 96.5%
"The IPCC has estimated that aviation is responsible for around 3.5 percent of anthropogenic climate change".
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...)
Not at all and I can't imagine "climate change activists" seeing it in that light (and really, we should all be activists at this point). More likely, the demand for traveling will remain unchanged but suppliers will.
Only if you assume that Thomas Cook customers will not just switch to one of the very many other oversubsidized airlines for their travel consumption.
Assuming the people who would have flown on that airline won't chose another option. Seems like a big (and incorrect) assumption.
I think it's tenuous at best to assume an airline closing will result in less total air travel.
Is that the climate change activists that fly private planes around the world to exotic hot locations where new facilities were built with fully air-conditioned spaces where they eat $10,000 steaks while lecturing the commoners about eating meat and climate change?