The Oil Drum

This is a guest post by Cameron Leckie, of ASPO Australia.

The organisation that I work for depends upon air travel for the movement of several thousand trainees around the country each year. I have been working on some peak oil risk management/mitigation strategies and the future of air travel is a key requirement that needs to be explored. This is a start on identifying the prospects for air travel in the post peak oil world. Ironically, this essay was planned whilst flying from Brisbane to Melbourne for one of this organisation's courses.

TODers know that flying, for the most part, is a luxury and not a necessity. Well, that's the way it should be, anyhow, but often, there's that pesky matter of business travel. Even academics do a considerable amount of travel, since we have to show our faces at few conferences a year in order to stay current in the field and make sure that our colleagues remember us. In other professions, some businesspeople may get on a plane 2-3 times a week (or more!).