European Airlines Highlight Environmental Costs of ATC Woes
Strikes, technical failures, and airspace inefficiencies have led to 1 million metric tons of avoidable CO2 emissions since 2014.
Suboptimal flight paths resulted in 229,000 metric tons of additional fuel consumption and 721,000 metric tons of avoidable CO2 emissions in Europe from 2015 to 2017. (Photo: Flickr: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons (BY-ND)</a> by <a href="http://flickr.com/people/islandis" target="_blank">Pierre PRESTAT</a>)
Suboptimal flight paths resulted in 229,000 metric tons of additional fuel consumption and 721,000 metric tons of avoidable CO2 emissions in Europe from 2015 to 2017. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-ND) by Pierre PRESTAT)