Covid ghost flights to keep airport slots.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:48 am
A fiscal kind of "green interest" story.
Pile o **** that ought have been resolved a long time ago due to covid affecting filled flights, but no.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... port-slots
Key paragraph..
"When the Covid pandemic began, the European Commission cut the benchmark for flight operations that airlines must meet to keep their slots open from 80% to 25%.
But last December, Brussels upped the benchmark to 50%, rising again to 64% in March"
If the flights are so damned empty, there needs to be a restricted service to reflect that, & pare down needless negative environmental impact.
When we flew in 2020 from various big London airports & it was skeleton operations that equates to close capacity per flight that left the ground, ..all else is farcical, especially when some of the biggest govt tax payer funded prop ups have been to the airline industry.
We booked restricted timetable flights because of so few passengers, our planes were full bar one of two seats (the norm) as a result, as one would hope
The capacity at the time of the airports was around 5-7% of daily throughput (I'd have to check though)
The EU policy makers need to kick it's own backside over this one.
Empty flights do no good for anyone, another moment of .... https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a ... om-meaning
Pile o **** that ought have been resolved a long time ago due to covid affecting filled flights, but no.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... port-slots
Key paragraph..
"When the Covid pandemic began, the European Commission cut the benchmark for flight operations that airlines must meet to keep their slots open from 80% to 25%.
But last December, Brussels upped the benchmark to 50%, rising again to 64% in March"
If the flights are so damned empty, there needs to be a restricted service to reflect that, & pare down needless negative environmental impact.
When we flew in 2020 from various big London airports & it was skeleton operations that equates to close capacity per flight that left the ground, ..all else is farcical, especially when some of the biggest govt tax payer funded prop ups have been to the airline industry.
We booked restricted timetable flights because of so few passengers, our planes were full bar one of two seats (the norm) as a result, as one would hope
The capacity at the time of the airports was around 5-7% of daily throughput (I'd have to check though)
The EU policy makers need to kick it's own backside over this one.
Empty flights do no good for anyone, another moment of .... https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a ... om-meaning