More Environmental Stupidity

[niemeyjt]

At a time we are all trying to reduce our carbon footprint, airlines, already exempt from aviation fuel taxes, do not seem to be playing their part in the fight.

Lufthansa, operated 18,000 flights this winter that would otherwise have been cancelled due to lack of passengers, including 3,000 flights under the Brussels Airlines banner

I wonder how many tonnes of CO2 were unnecessarily generated - and how much fuel was unnecessarily burned?

source: https://www.thebulletin.be/brussels-air ... port-slots

[tagh]

To be fair, airlines are starting to use non or minimally polluting fuels made from recycled rubbish and other stuff.
But the Brussels episode is just plain nuts.