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Airlines could halve emissions with modern aircraft and routing improvements, study shows | Aerospace Testing International (www.aerospacetestinginternational.com)
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Lead author of the study Professor Stefan Gössling, from the department of marketing and tourism studies at Linnaeus University said, “Efficiency-based policies have a great potential to curb aviation emissions, and can be in airlines’ own economic interest. But the reality is that many airlines continue to fly with old aircraft, low passenger occupancies, and growing proportions of premium-class seating.”

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

oh yeah... i am sure department of marketing and tourism are experts on aviation routing.

also throwing out all these old aircrafts and just getting new ones makes complete sense - it would come at no cost, both financial and environmental, and since the production capacities are basically infinite, could be done tomorrow, if only those pesky airline managers would be willing to do that.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think you're missing the part about airline fuel being expensive to hurtle giant flying metal tubes through the sky. Sure it costs more to buy a new plane than an old one, but it costs less over time.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think you’re missing the part about airline fuel being expensive

of course i am. and so do the airlines, because they obviously know nothing about their business and were just waiting for marketing teacher to tell them how to run it 😂

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, they are chasing short term profits over long term, at the cost of the environment.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip -2 points 4 days ago

there is no short term profit in airline industry. do you have idea how long it takes for the aircraft to pay for itself? about environmental cost of producing the aircraft itself? do you think it is sensible to just write these costs off, throw the hull away and build new one (even if it were technically possible, which it is not)? more eco friendly, so instead of 1 cost, you now have 1+0,8=1,8 cost? this is real life, things take time to change.

and know the airlines are trying to be as eco-friendly as possible - not necessarily because they are so eco-aware, but because it is cheaper.