"Friends of the Earth"
If they are truly 'Friends of the Earth' they'll do the Earth a favor and off themselves. Naturally in a Carbon Neutral manner, like hanging - so they can all use the same rope.
Posted on 03/06/2008 11:03:51 AM PST by PittsburghAfterDark
A major airline is under fire from environmentalists for flying an aircraft across the Atlantic with only five passengers on board.
The flight from Chicago to London meant that the plane, a Boeing 777, used 22,000 gallons of fuel.
It led to American Airlines being accused of reckless behaviour by green lobby groups.
The latest "eco- scandal" flight took place on February 9 after American was forced to cancel one of its four daily services from Chicago to London.
While it was able to find places for nearly all the passengers on the fully-booked flight, five still had to be accommodated. Those who did fly were upgraded to the business class cabin.
But while they enjoyed lavish hospitality, the airline was accused of an "obscene waste of fuel" by Friends of the Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
- Countless high profile celebrities flying private jets to and from environmental events.
- Countless government bureaucrats from every country in the world that went to Indonesia for the UN's summit on "climate change" that brought so many private planes the conference that the airport had no more ramp space.
- Arsonists destroying swaths of private property in this in other countries in the name of the environment.
It appears these boneheads don't know anything about the airline term deadheading when planes are frequently shuffled from one locale to another empty.
I can't stand the hypocrisy of these groups and their lack of understanding of the real world.
Clearly never heard the term “dead-head” for flights.
It just keeps getting better and better....lol
You just can't make this stuff up!
Calling Mr. Gore...
Sounds like a great flight. All the transatlantic flights I’ve been on have been packed. I’d love to be on this one!
Like most all of these anti human organizations they will take every action and lie every day about something that has NO meaning on the lives of we humans.
They want all humans to be destroyed or put under the yoke of the left wing tyrants like Hitler and Stalin.
Anytime I get the chance i tell my elected representative that to vote to help these people is to vote against the United States and for the Nazi.
Being a business, AA cannot return the favor by calling FOE "an obscene waste of oxygen."
But I can.
They’ve never b1tched about Algore (manbearpig) taking a big-ass jet all around the world, certainly less full than a commercial jet of the same size.
I guess it depends on whose ox is GOREd.
SETTING: Airport terminal of your choice
ANNOUNCEMENT:
"Flight 123 has been cancelled by the Global Environment Commission due to excessive carbon emissions/person. The next time you book a flight, please ensure that that particular flight has enough passengers onboard to justify the environmental damage. Thank you for considering American Airlines for your travel plans."
I want to know if ANY Friends of the Earth actually have & use a clothes line?
RE: the first point.
John Travolta flying his “entourage” to Singapore aboard his 737 (or 717?). Fuel surely approaches 22K gallons of Jet A.
If it was Al Gore and a couple of his buddies in the plane, then these evironMENTALs would ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen.
That would assume that they actually bathe & wash their clothes, which in their view would waste valuable water and dump toxic chemicals, a.k.a. soap, into the environment.
If the plane had been full it would have been just “a waste of fuel” However since there were only 5 passengers it is an “OBSCENE waste of fuel”
It’s a 707. An old, inefficient airliner. It would probably burn way more fuel than a new 777.
FotE are idiots. The plane would have made the trip anyway within the next 24 hours likely burning a higher volume of fuel.
AA accomodated some unhappy (now & future) passengers. Great customer relations, I’d say.
Of course these morons don't realize that many commercial flights also carry a great deal of cargo!! Will that count when evaluating the environmental damage that is done by a particular flight? (I guess my fictitious GEC will make that determination too)
Geee,,,I guess that all cargo carriers will have to be evaluated for the proper level of cargo onboard too!!! You can't make this stuff up!!...lol
Thanks, I knew it was a 7X fuselage.
Still, since it is Travolta, it can’t be OBSCENE, right?
Aside from the FOE howling, this was pretty stupid from a business standpoint. The fuel cost would have been staggering, and it’s hard to imagine that 5 more passengers couldn’t have been bought off for less than the fuel cost. And I seriously doubt that airlines are “dead-heading” jumbo jets across the Atlantic these days, just to get planes from one place to another.
They’ll never complain about Albore doing it on his private jet.
algore was traveling?
There was a USAirways pilot I knew that used to fly the Pittsburgh to Frankfurt route.
He stated they made enough money carrying cargo that they could fly the plane completely empty of passengers and still make money on the route, passenger income was pure gravy.
I remember those!
In a rational world, it would be the stockholders who would be decrying the minor damage to the company’s bottom line, not some teenagers whining about minor amounts of carbon.
Why didn’t they buy all the empty seats and donate them to the needy? Fellow enviro-Nazi’s perhaps? One way of course.
"Friends of the Earth"
If they are truly 'Friends of the Earth' they'll do the Earth a favor and off themselves. Naturally in a Carbon Neutral manner, like hanging - so they can all use the same rope.
John “Thetan” Revolta flies a B-707.
Must be nice.
I’d do it, too, if I could afford it.
Because as soon as other airline execs hear about AA being nice to passengers, the AA board is going to be drummed out of every country club on the planet. AA's action was a total violation of the airline version of sharia law.
> Aside from the FOE howling, this was pretty stupid
> from a business standpoint. The fuel cost would have
> been staggering, and it’s hard to imagine that 5 more
> passengers couldn’t have been bought off for less than
> the fuel cost.
The article said AA needed to reposition the equipment in any case, so might as well take some pax. And, as some one else pointed out, there’s always cargo.
Thanks, that's what I suspected.
Methinks the Environmental Jihad is entering stage 3.
Let the market sort it out! I am sure the twits at Friends of the Earth can’t imagine it - but Airlines do not want to buy fuel at $4/gallon for only 5 passengers either. The FREE-market will always make the best allocation of resources.
bump for later
None of those vile busybodies is an airline CEO or CFO and none has the faintest idea of how to use airliners most efficiently to produce the highest possible return to the stockholders per seat mile flown, and the lowest fuel cost. It would be nice to see some of those “critics” try to run an airline.
Huh? We have to assume that scheduled airlines have round trip flights. If you cancel a flight you still have to figure out how to get the passengers waiting on the other side of the pond onto flights coming home.
Are you suggesting that it would have been cheaper for the airline to put the excess London passengers into hotels overnight?
Also airlines have long-term cargo customers who in turn have customers waiting on the other end for their scheduled shipments.
I'm sure the airline staff ran the numbers and made a decision they could defend to their supervisors.
In airlines were run by socialists, they all be shuttle flights. You'd show up at the airport days beforehand, like cattle at a railhead where you'd have to justify your trip to a bureaucrat and pay your carbon tax before you could get a numbered boarding pass. You'd be packed in like on a subway car holding onto a handgrip the whole trip.
Every single day I see city buses running their routes hour after hour almost completely empty.
Why?
Because groups such as Friends of the Earth insist upon and bully communities into building wildly over-expensive and under-used “public transportation systems.”
Get a clue.
These protesters have waaaay too much time on their hands and no knowledge of how commercial airlines operate.
BFL.
Interesting.
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