Tag: Northwest Airlines
The Myth of the Carbon-Neutral Air Traveler?
by Joanna Kakissis | 01.02.09 | 2:27 PM ET
By 2025, air travel could hurl nearly 1.5 billion tons of carbon annually into the environment—about a half of what the 457 million people at the 27-nation European Union currently emit. If you care about the environment, this is a terrible trend to ponder on an international flight.
I’m in Athens, Greece, now spending the holidays with my family but my flight from Denver, Colorado, did its small part to pollute the earth, producing some 5,243 lbs of CO2, according to the TerraPass carbon footprint calculator. I felt bad, to some extent, but air travel is the most efficient way to visit people and places when we’re on tight schedules. (And there are many other things we can do to be better eco-travelers until the day all planes can run on biofuel, but that’s another blog post altogether.)
Some airlines already offer travelers opportunities to buy offsets that would help pay for carbon-reducing projects or programs (and perhaps reduce their eco-guilt). And San Francisco International Airport is set to become the nation’s (and perhaps the world’s) first airport with self-service kiosks where travelers can swipe their credit cards to buy carbon offset credits.
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Yahoo! BuzzIntroducing the World’s Largest Airline
by Jim Benning | 10.30.08 | 11:33 AM ET
That would be Delta Air Lines, now that the Justice Department has approved its purchase of Northwest. For those keeping score, American Airlines was the largest before the Delta-Northwest deal was approved yesterday.
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