{"id":14885,"date":"2016-10-19T10:31:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=14885"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:32:45","slug":"should-we-abolish-business-class-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2016\/10\/should-we-abolish-business-class-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we abolish business class to save the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14887 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/in-flight-meal-732953_1280.jpg\" alt=\"in-flight-meal-732953_1280\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/in-flight-meal-732953_1280.jpg 700w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/in-flight-meal-732953_1280-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">B<\/span>ecause every flight is different, the most accurate way to measure emissions is on a per-passenger basis. But not all seats are created equal. The larger the first- and business-class sections of an aircraft, the more economy seats are displaced. The fewer people on the aircraft, the higher the per-person carbon contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not fair to count that against the people in economy\u00a0\u2014 they&#8217;re not the ones taking up more room.\u00a0<a class=\"body-el-link standard-body-el-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www-wds.worldbank.org\/external\/default\/WDSContentServer\/IW3P\/IB\/2013\/05\/31\/000158349_20130531105457\/Rendered\/PDF\/WPS6471.pdf\">When it studied this idea<\/a>, the World Bank adjusted an individual&#8217;s carbon contribution relative to their seats. The result: Business-class and first class-passengers can have carbon footprints three to nine times higher than people in economy.<\/p>\n<p>Those differences add up. The International Council on Clean Transport recently\u00a0<a class=\"body-el-link standard-body-el-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theicct.org\/blogs\/staff\/inflight-luxury-who-really-pays\">studied<\/a>the A380, which is marketed as the &#8220;green giant,&#8221; and found its environmentally friendly label was calculated based on the aircraft&#8217;s ability to seat 850 economy passengers. In reality, a typical A380 carries 525 seats. When this discrepancy is accounted for, &#8220;the green giant&#8221; isn&#8217;t so green after all.<\/p>\n<p>SMASH FREQUENT FLIER PROGRAMS<\/p>\n<p>Cramming even more bodies on a plane is unlikely to win over many people for the &#8220;greening aviation&#8221; cause, though. So how about doing away with frequent flyer programs, which encourage people to fly more?<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is an excerpt from an article first published by <i>Popular Mechanics<\/i>. Read the original article here: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/flight\/a23298\/make-flying-greener\/\" target=\"_blank\">Should We Abolish Business Class To Save the Planet?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business-class and first class-passengers can have carbon footprints three to nine times higher than people in economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,675,130,535,12],"tags":[124],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should we abolish business class to save the planet?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Business-class and first class-passengers can have carbon footprints three to nine times higher than people in economy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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