The Bulletin says Lufthansa plans to cancel 33,000 flights in January and February due to a lack of ticket sales.
News of 'ghost flights' first made headlines in March 2020, when sudden lockdowns caused a sharp drop in the demand for air travel.
Euronews Green says a short-haul flight on a 737 emits almost twice the amount of carbon dioxide per hour than an average European family emits in an entire year.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr acknowledged the problem, describing the 18,000 departures and landings as “empty, unnecessary flights.”
“It seems incomprehensible that we actively require airlines to produce these colossal emissions simply to secure landing slots - even at 50 per cent of normal capacity," Livesley said.
“Airlines and airports must make it a priority to find a better solution - and should be incentivized by governments to do so."
The United Nations global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, ended over the 2nd weekend of Nov 2021 with an agreement among nearly 200 nations to accelerate the fight against the climate crisis and to commit to tougher climate pledges.
The two week conference ended with some significant accomplishments, including new pledges on methane gas pollution, deforestation, coal financing, as well as completion of long-awaited rules on carbon trading and a notable U.S.-China deal. The summit also closed with calls on governments to return in 2022 with stronger pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions and to provide more available funding for nations most vulnerable to a changing climate.
They just forgot to mention that it comes from a stupid European Union law, which is more sensible everywhere else in the world. Maybe we are pointing fingers in the wrong direction.
ReplyDeleteI've flown from Chicago to Philly on a 747 where I was the only passenger.
ReplyDeleteStarted a redeye in Portland and everyone else got off in Chicago but the plane had to be in Philly in the morning.