Posted on 11/14/2021 7:46:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The boss of the world's second biggest airline has said that tackling climate change will make flying more expensive.
"Over time, it's going to cost us all more, but it's the right approach that we must take," Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian told the BBC.
Critics argue the best way to reduce them is by flying less.
Atlanta-based Delta says that after spending $30m (£22.4m) a year on carbon-offsetting it has been carbon neutral since March 2020.
It has also pledged to spend $1bn over the next decade to cancel out all the emissions it creates.
More fuel-efficient planes, sustainable aviation fuels and removing carbon from the atmosphere are some of the ways it hopes to achieve this.
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Then just drive.
What it should mean is he will have to get a real job.
Another James Taggert CEO.
Liberals preventing pipelines and impeeding drilling will cause the price of everything that depends on oil to cost more, including flying.
It has ZERO to do with “climate change”
Just liberal stupidity.
I’ve flown as much as I care to.
i can play this game all day long.
Driving is what I do. I won’t fly again thanks to thieving TSA, vaccine passports and general hoopla at the airports. Other than that, I love flying.
Rationing resources to the rich always reduces demand
Haven’t read the book, but I did watch all three Atlas Shrugged movies this week, and before I read your comment, I was reminded of society in the story.
Delta’s WOKE credentials are impeccable.
I told them to take my frequent flyer miles, and shove them.
Translation: “Carbon kickbacks to the UN are going to be passed on to customers.
Its a tax and won’t fix anything.
The elites, of course, will get to fly anywhere as much as they want. We groundlings will get to use the bus to cross the country.
“Atlanta-based Delta says that after spending $30m (£22.4m) a year on carbon-offsetting it has been carbon neutral since March 2020. “
What’s this IMBECILE CEO’S encore, whipping the ocean and commanding it not to rise?
You’re going to see a huge increase in charter and private jets. People are simply going to pool resources together to go on a chartered flight.
I prefer to give my business to companies that don’t buy in (at my expense) to algore’s slush fund.
And he probably does not know or care whether that's from climate change. Follows the party line because why not? He's rich.
One more reason I don’t fly anymore.
Won’t cost me anything. I will not fly their decrepit woke airline. Or any others for that matter. I may pay more for gas and hotels, but I’ll enjoy the ride. Something I have not done on an airline since the early 80s.
I can hardly wait for pete to get that bridge to Hawaii put in place. Or brandon’s choo choo line.
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