Carriers were accused of failing to face up to these vital challenges in a BBC Panorama expose on Monday night (11 November) which asked: “Can flying go green?”.
Ahead of the show, the BBC called out British Airways for its practice of “fuel tankering” – operating aircraft with excess fuel to avoid filling up at destination airports.
The primary benefit of fuel tankering is to save money, but it comes at the expense of increasing carbon emissions owing to aircraft having to carry additional weight.
