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Find Flights Annoying? Now Combine Flying With Loud Cell Phone Conversations!
As airlines try to save money by cutting flights and even using lighter meal carts, combined with heightened security, lost baggage and the guilt over spewing CO2 into the atmosphere, it seems flying couldn't get any more unpleasant. But now, thanks to
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Airlines Shaving Costs Everywhere They Can
We recently covered truckers protesting the high price of diesel, but truckers aren't the only people concerned about rising fuel costs. Airlines, whose largest expense is now fuel, are taking action, and they are doing more than cutting flights to
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Airlines Cut Flights and Planes to Save Fuel
We’ve already seen the profits of Ryanair and British Airways squeezed by higher oil prices, not to mention, in the words of Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary, ‘eco-loonies’ avoiding unnecessary air travel.
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US Airlines Must Pay the Price of Carbon Emissions or Lose EU Flights
If you're not attempting to reduce your airline's carbon emissions by flying the first all-biofuel jumbo-jet flight, the efficacy of which is in and of itself up for debate, the EU requires your airline to subscribe to a carbon trading *cough* scheme.
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Delta Airlines Celebrates Green Issue, Initiatives
Delta Air Lines held quite a hootenanny at its Sky360° lounge in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday to celebrate the launch of its in-flight magazine's environmentally themed March 2008 issue, which you can read in its entirety online. Reason enough to
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Airport Protesters Scale Parliament
It certainly seems like the folks protesting Heathrow Airport's planned runway expansion are not afraid of guns. Having breached security and climbed on top of a plane earlier this week, yesterday a group of activists found their way to the roof of
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Heathrow Protesters Breach Security
From mock billboards to the Camp for Climate Action, Heathrow Airport has been the scene of a number of climate-related protests. As far as we know, however, today may be the first time that campaigners have gone as far as breaching airport security
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Paper Tickets Are Flying Away For Good
In just three months, according to the International Air Transport Association, 100% of tickets issued for air travel will be electronic. This is an impressive figure given that four years ago "just 18 percent of airline tickets issued worldwide were
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CBS: Forget Flying, Amtrak is In
Amtrak ridership is at an all time high - last year 26 million passengers took the train instead of driving or flying. While this may not compare to the hundreds of millions of passengers on Europe and Asia's high-speed rails, there is a clear trend
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Solar Plane Grounded for Lack of Funds
We first heard about Bertrand Piccard and his plan to fly around the world in the solar-powered SolarImpulse in 2005. Now it's time for an update. After raising $60 million, the swiss adventurer is only $30 million short of his goal, and currently
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You've Travelled the World. Now Change It.
"You've travelled the world. Now change it." says We Are What We Do, the global social movement. They have been changing the world (for a Fiver and 9 to 5) for three years now and thought it was high time to raise their sights about 35,000
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Ryanair Boss: "Recession Would End Environmental Nonsense Among Chattering Classes"
When we reported that British Airways was seeing its profits squeezed by the twin threat of rising oil prices and increased competition from rail, commenter Ecobore suspected it had more to do with the budget airlines than it did any shift to greener
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British Airways' Profits Squeezed by Eurostar and Oil Prices
Yesterday we heard how Spain’s new high-speed rail service is getting set to take on the airlines. Meanwhile, on the other side of Europe the airlines may already be suffering through the twin threat of rising oil prices and competition from an ever
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Spain's New High-Speed Rail Service Challenges the Airlines
It’s not just Eurostar, the rail service between London and mainland Europe, that is challenging the aviation industry in terms of both emissions and convenience. In fact, high-speed rail networks are expanding all over Europe. Now we hear from The
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Bring it On, Say Airlines
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is vigorously contesting a proposal made by several EU nations that would include aviation emissions under the international body's cap-and-trade scheme. The airline
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Richard Branson Wants Natalie Imbruglia To Host Green Show
Virgin Records founder Richard Branson is reportedly hoping to rope in singer and actress Natalie Imbruglia as the host of his new eco-friendly TV series. The British airline and media mogul, who made his green pledge last year under pressure from Al
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Air New Zealand Biofuelling Through The High Skies
With flying being one of the greatest contributors to growing carbon emissions, airlines are scrambling to find ways to clean up their image — carbon offsets, recycling, zero emissions targets — but it is up to some scrutiny and debate as to
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Does the Airline Industry Recycle?
Last week, Sami took a close look at the airline industry and wrote about how they are aiming for zero emissions. In May, Warren covered Nature Air, a little fleet of seven planes that were working on alternative aviation fuels. We of course think this
