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Originally Posted by glypo
I suppose I am most frustrated as the airline industry (where I work) gets so much stick - yet ironically it's one of the greenest modes of transport. (Media didn't tell you that did they?) With planes like the A380 doing something like 115 miles per gallon per passenger, and future aircraft promising even more, what else could people want? http://www.glypo.com/general/aivenviro.pdf for a report I wrote just last year when I was at Uni.
Sorry rant over. Great link minus the CO2 bit  |
ok, I agree with you, but you got to put things into perspective also....
When an Aircraft has it's full allocation of passengers and/or cargo, they are an extremely inefficient way of transporting people, when you go to the domestic flight market in America, where some are nearly empty, and none are really full, the economies of scale fall by the wayside.
Just like with cars, it is greedy to have a big car and just you in it.... but you add one or two more, and your carbon footprint drasticaly reduces.... says me who normaly has 6 in his car haha