Posted on 11/19/2019 6:58:24 AM PST by yesthatjallen
From today easyJet will be the first major airline to offset the carbon emissions from the fuel used for all of its flights on behalf of all of its customers
easyJet and Airbus sign hybrid-electric aircraft research agreement which will analyse the opportunities and challenges surrounding hybrid and electric aircraft
The airline will continue to support the long-term reinvention of aviation through new technology
easyJet, Europe’s leading airline, has today announced that it will become the world’s first major airline to operate net-zero carbon flights across its whole network. The airline will achieve this goal by offsetting the carbon emissions from the fuel used for all of its flights, starting today.
easyJet will undertake carbon offsetting through schemes accredited by two of the highest verification standards, Gold Standard and VCS. They will include forestry, renewable and community based projects.
Carbon offsetting is only an interim measure while new technologies are developed, so the airline will continue to support innovative technology, including the development of hybrid and electric planes, working with others across the industry to reinvent and de-carbonise aviation over the long-term. The aim will be for easyJet to reduce the amount of carbon offsetting undertaken as new technologies emerge.
As part of this goal, we have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus related to a joint research project on hybrid and electric aircraft. The MoU is an important step towards furthering the industry’s understanding of the operational and infrastructure opportunities and challenges of plug-in hybrid and full electric aircraft.
easyJet and Airbus will cooperate on three distinct work packages set to define the impacts and the requirements necessary for the large-scale introduction of next generation sustainable aircraft on infrastructure and every-day commercial aircraft operations.
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(Excerpt) Read more at mediacentre.easyjet.com ...
Let me guess. Passengers will not be allowed to breath while on their planes?
Charge more to meet the offset!
EasyJet cancel approximately 50% of their scheduled flights. That’s how they offset carbon.
It’s called hang gliding, I think. And there’s no first class.
I love this sentence within: “easyJet will undertake carbon offsetting through schemes..”
Schemes. Lol.
Awesome. Solar and wind powered aircraft. Who knew? Lucky no fossil fuel products are used in any way shape or form in the production of these awesome planes. Right?
Electric airplanes. What could possibly go wrong?
And they’ll be forced to peddle to keep the engines rotating.
And don’t drink the water or coffee.
Note to self: Don’t fly easyJet.
Plant a tree for every mile flown.
That is the only way to offset Liberal insanity.
They must use a solar powered motor to wind up the rubber band.
“Ye cannae change the laws of physics”
These people really are nuts.
I hadn’t thought of that.
It would work. /LOL
lol....so there IS first class!
“Carbon offsetting” is just a way of forcing people to pay for something that they must do anyway. Voluntary now, compulsory later. Not much later if a dem is elected to the White House.
EasyJet (Britain) is just virtue signaling to the Climate
Change Throng in the UK, most of whom are liberal arts majors
with no comprehension of the laws of physics and/or engineering.
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