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How GPS Can Save The Airline Industry Time and Fuel
GPS--So Many Uses We've already seen how GPS can be used to track global warming, make cycling more efficient and fun, document environmental destruction and even find lost pets. Now, the Associated Press is reporting that the current U.S. air traffic
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One Way to Conserve Jet Fuel: Pack Less Stuff
The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable Travel in a recent issue of National Geographic Traveler is chock-full of good tips, but the one we founding most surprising was the amount of jet fuel that can be saved by packing fewer items in your
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Airline Industry: Help Me, Help You
Think airline industry. Think major polluters. Airlines emitted more than 418 billion pounds of carbon dioxide last year. They also create "diesel shuttles that circle the terminal road, [leaving] thousands of tons of toxic
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Next Off the Plane to Save Weight: Safety Equipment
Jazz, Air Canada's discount airline spinoff, has pulled all the lifejackets out from under the seats to save about a pound per passenger and a bit of fuel. The regulations say that is OK if the plane stays within 50 miles of land, and they have adjusted
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The End of Aviation: What Will Happen When We Can't Afford To Fly?
Bradford Plumer writes in the New Republic about the most radical transition that we may have to make in the post-carbon world: the end of cheap commercial flight. Airlines aren't very profitable with expensive fuel, and 25
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Delta to Bring Wi-Fi to the Skies, Jet Blue to Charge for Blankets
High fuel costs have sent the airlines scrambling to do anything to shave costs, raise rates wherever possible (e.g., charging for checked baggage) and still attract more passengers. This trend is continuing as Delta Airlines has announced that it will
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Emirates Drops In-Flight Magazine To Save Fuel
When Andrew reported on airlines shaving fuel costs any way they can, commenter J Walsh shared some astounding calculations with us regarding how much weight is represented by in-flight magazines (around 498,750 punds for one airline per day!). Kristin
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Congress Moves to Ban In-Flight Cell Phone Use
America is facing many challenges at the moment: gas prices, two ongoing wars, health care, social security, and the credit crisis, to name a few. So it might come as a bit of a surprise (or perhaps not!) that Congress spent yesterday trading horror
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Organic vs. Local Beer, Future Flights and Ford Motors' Makeover
Beer drinkers beware. TalkGreen reminds us that not all eco-friendly beers are created equal.
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X-Prize to Offer $10m for Sustainable Jet Fuel
The X-Prize for Aviation The X-Prize Foundation's efforts to encourage greener cars has already been attracting multi-million dollar sponsorships, and may have even inspired John McCain's proposed competition for better battery technology. Now the
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Bombardier Launches Fuel Efficient Jet
Life hasn't been easy for the airlines lately. As fuel prices wreak havoc with the industry's bottom line, carriers have responded by dumping older, less efficient jets,
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The Slimfast Diet for Airplanes
We learned in back in high school physics that it takes energy to move a mass, and the more mass, the more energy. Paul Kedrosky lists some of the tiny moves that airlines are making to squeeze every ounce
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US Airways to Start Charging for Checked Baggage, Drinks
High fuel costs have been forcing airlines to shave costs everywhere they can, for instance by slowing down, eliminating magazines and cutting flights. Those efforts, however, haven't been enough, as evidenced by a statement by US Airways CEO Doug
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Eurostar Is Cheaper If You Shop Around
Eurostar Competing with Airlines In these times of record oil prices and global warming fears, train-operator Eurostar seems to be becoming an increasingly popular choice for folks wanting to travel between mainland Europe and the UK. With studies
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Air New Zealand Sets Sustainable Biofuels Goal for 2013
It seems like there's a lot of buzz around non-food biofuels in aviation these days. Only yesterday we reported on a company promoting algae biofuels technology to KLM airlines and major cruiseships, although it has to be said that some of our
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Efficient Modern Turboprop Aircraft are Making a Comeback
The turboprop aircraft is making a comeback, with sales to one of the only remaining manufacturers quadrupling in 2007 and a continued upsurge expected. With high oil prices, concerns over climate change, and uncertain economic conditions keeping
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Delta Airlines Takes Small Paper-less Step Towards Greening
After posting on JetBlue’s new green initiative, we were eager to hear about the latest changes at Delta Airlines to go green as well. Heck, after all of the news this week about airlines suffering more setbacks due to rising costs, we figured that
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Jet Blue Reduces Its Carbon Footprint
When big culprits of CO2 emissions, like the airlines, decide to go green, we at Treehugger take notice. We've reported on airlines eliminating flights to save fuel, and got some really interesting commentson
