Europa
Climate warning
Climate warning
Sarah Chabane
120 w
Get rid of the "use it or lose it" rule that forces airlines to operate empty flights to maintain airport slots
Airlines are forced to fly empty planes not to lose their airport slots and this has to stop. @lufthansa_group will be forced to fly the equivalent of 18,000 empty planes during the winter season in order to keep its valuable airport slots and @brussels_airlines has operated 3,000 empty or near-empty flights this winter to avoid losing take-off and landing rights at major airports. Before the Covid pandemic, the rule was that airlines must operate flights in at least 80% of their scheduled take-off and landing slots, or they risked losing them. The European Union's ‘use it or lose it’ rule had been suspended in March 2020 but was brought back incrementally and now stands at 50% much higher than the actual number of flights needed to meet passenger demand. Keeping this rule doesn't make any sense in a climate emergency and is contrary to the EU objective of reducing greenhouse gasses by 55% by 2030. https://simpleflying.com/lufthansa-ghost-flights/
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107 w
I second this ... Such rules should be done away with so as to reduce the levels of emission caused by the aviation industry
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107 w
In my opinion one of the biggest flaws of this system. How can we even? On one hand shouting to change and accelerate transition to a greener and circular EU, but supporting this shit. Under 40% filled flights should be grounded.
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118 w
Where should we push this to light?
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118 w
Not good (
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118 w
This needs to stop imediately. But to make this happen we may have to help them by finding another way to hand out the slots in a fair and just way. Otherwise, if we just suspend the rule, we may end up with old companies, with old aircrafts, keeping the attractive slots they once recieved and preventing young companies with new, greener aircrafts (electric? Green hydrogen?) from competing. (Air travel will need to be limited in the future, but we will need some, and that should be as green as possible). Maybe an auction where the companys CO2 emission is factor, so that the money from a green company is worth more than the fossil heavy companys money? This could help the young companies, as well as push the old companies to retire their worst polluting aircrafts.
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118 w
Shocked by this
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This business model is no good for impact. Airport often make their money on people traffic, everything from ticket fees to shop leases so this creates a perverse incentive.
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119 w
Thank you, Sarah Chabane
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119 w
Thank you for supporting my warning!
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Thank you for raising this issue!
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Thank you for supporting my climate action!
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Dear Sarah Chabane Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to European Commission and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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119 w
Wah! That's shocking. It must be stopped!
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119 w
I am so shocked that this is a practice — especially with the shame and guilt surrounding passenger air travel today. Yet it is standard practice to fly tens of thousands of empty planes each year. It's absurd. The least these airlines could have done was donated these seats to COP26 attendees, huh?
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120 w
Agree Sarah. Totally. What a complete waste of carbon emissions given humanities 'carbon budget', a grossly inefficient use of energy resources, just a forced money spinner for the airport facility. Shame on you airport's, more fool you airlines!
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120 w
This makes no sense indeed!
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It's very illogical, and should be removed!
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This is why we need a carbon tax so that it doesn't make economic sense to do silly things like this anymore. Thanks for sharing Sarah!