Airlines are increasingly talking about the environment. Who knows whether its because they actually care, or whether its because they think its what they need to talk about. Regardless, its a step in the right direction.
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Reading between the lines.
Now DL is now including carbon offset in your fares.
Those extra money we make and spent would offset tax.
Environment is the best cover to conceal income.
Typical Delta!!! Brainwashing and brilliant marketing PR with a bunch of unsubstantiated or unsupported promises.
DL won’t be the first carbon neutral airline. In Vancouver, Harbour Air has been Carbon Neutral for years, and of course easyjet is as well.
Non-productive leftists found NGOs, stage 'protests', make pseudo-science claims to extort money from Big Business. Big Business has to hire PR agencies (which ironically are owned by other not-really-productive leftists).
All fine and dandy, but just a press release of what they propose to do. Wouldn’t get me to fly them over another airline regardless if their price and schedule weren’t competitive. The planting of trees is good but what elitists do to rationalize the use of private jets. Why not plant trees and fly commercial?
Fantastic news!
They should concentrate on their direct scope emissions over offsetting, but I'm looking forward to more concrete announcements.
I get a kick out of how gullible some must be if they fall for this crap. Yet, they are also the ones who think eating meat and burning wood are the reasons for climate change, so not very surprising….
Delta generates nearly $50 billion per year in revenues. $100 million per year amounts to a fraction of 1 percent but is still far more than most of its competitors can spend.
The term "global airline" might not be set in stone but I would think it would have to include airlines that actually fly to multiple - at least 3 maybe - continents. I don't see any of the other airlines mentioned as doing that.
As for details, Lucky just partnered with an organization that is planting trees. The world would hardly be in worse shape if Delta dumps even half of its $100 million per year doing the same thing.
Climate change denial folks in a pot of boiling water: "This is TOTALLY fine! What a hoax!"
Guess what? You are the minority, by a long shot.
I'm glad that airlines are trying to do something to reduce their/our carbon footprint. It's a start.
Delta is just getting ahead of the curve. Pure strategic move. Recent article about how U.S. airlines are worried about the flight shaming movement in Europe taking hold here.
"Robin Hayes, chief executive of New York-based JetBlue Airways, told industry analysts during a conference call recently that it’s only a matter of time before Americans follow the lead of their Swedish counterparts to find more environmentally friendly alternatives to commercial air travel."
If Delta wants to save climate, the best way would be stopping all flights immediately. Everything else is just PR measurements.
Now if only we had a robust national HSR system that could drastically cut down the need for 20/day flight frequencies to cities less than 500 miles away.
"Delta explains that the aviation industry accounts for about 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions". So Delta announces that they will do "something" about it. Meanwhile China is building a new coal fired power plant every week, and merely promises to "think about doing something" by 2030 (maybe). But no one mentions that, as it's not PC to criticize authoritarian regimes, who everyone knows won't bother to listen to any whining about Climate Change (sic) anyway. But it's good corporate publicity, and everyone gets to feel proud about doing something to "save the Earth", even though it won't make a bit of difference. Which we will all be fine with, as deep down we all know this "climate" brouhaha is a bunch of nonsense anyway. But no one dares to say that out loud, lest they be denounced as a "denier".
And Japan is going to build up to 22 new coal-fired power plants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/japan-coal-fukushima.html
"Together the 22 power plants would emit almost as much carbon dioxide annually as all the passenger cars sold each year in the United States."
Forget about renewable energy. People don't realize how crucial nuclear power is. Eventually fusion power will render renewables obsolete. What is so wonderful about building solar and wind farms or flooding valleys? Renewables are also destructive.
@Jay
Flight shaming isn't as big as those who want to be say it is. Either way it would never take hold here in the US.
What a load of non-sense. This is all hazy religious declarations to make sacrifices at the altar of Leftists dogma. Carbon offset taxes are a huge scam...just wait, one day everyone will realize the con job. Obviously, no one seeks to to destroy the environment except for a few sickos but come on. The only way to offset emissions is to not emit them. This $1bn is a waste. As silly as solar powered airplanes is, at least it's an attempt at innovation. I'm not giving up air travel just to appease the likes of Gertard.
United has been using biofuels for a number of years, now, and the Ecofuel initiative has been slowly gaining steam with them. As with many things, it takes time and money. To say that Delta is the first, however, would be incorrect. Other airlines have been experimenting with the concept for years. They all simply implement differently and at their own paces.
United committed back in 2018 to reduce emissions by 50% by 2050 and are doing it with investments in sustainable aviation fuel, which is a long term solution vs. the short term of purchasing emissions offsets.
https://hub.united.com/united-emissions-pledge-biofuel-flight-2604658144.html