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At the very least, they could’ve taken Al Gore:
British Airways has sparked an environmental row by flying a jumbo jet 6,000 miles to Hong Kong without a single passenger on board.
The Boeing 747 made the 11-hour trip manned by just four flightdeck crew, while all 300 seats behind them remained empty.
During its journey from Heathrow, BA Flight 0027 burned a massive 140 tons of fuel – the equivalent of filling 5,400 family-sized cars – and emitted 329 tons of CO2.
None of that matters. The important thing is, were its lights on?
Dave S., don’t be silly. That’s logical thought processes, something anathema to many of these folks. Remember, these are the people who have seized upon dodgy science and dodgier celebrities and then based their entire world view on it. Rationality is not their strong suit.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 03 17 at 01:42 PM • permalinkThe important thing is, were its lights on?
The lights were on, but it’s okay since the bulbs were those curvey Earth-friendly ones. The important thing is, did the crew smoke?
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 17 at 01:44 PM • permalinkGore would have needed two seats. Plus the rest of the plane to haul his Gaia-hugging sycophants.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 03 17 at 02:26 PM • permalinkOne advantage of flying an empty aircraft is the reduced risk of “blue ice deliveries“. That’s gotta count for something with the greenies, no?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 17 at 02:37 PM • permalinkHow can burning 140 tons of kerosene create 329 tons of co2 ?
Burning adds oxygen from the atmosphere to carbon from the fuel.
I was one of two passengers on an Eastern Airlines L-1011 jumbo from Newark NJ to Miami FL, about a thousand miles, long ago. You got upgraded to first class so the stewardess (short straw drawerer, I imagine) didn’t have to walk so far, two steak dinners and a free bottle of wine to take home.
Typically these are aircraft repositioning incidents, and they throw on what odd passengers are standing around, if any are.
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How can burning 140 tons of kerosene create 329 tons of co2 ?
They include the carbon emitted during transport of the kerosene, by the trucks which deliver it, by the car used by the truck drivers to get to work, by the heat used to cook the breakfast eaten by the truck driver etc.
Don’t get me started on refining.
They should have deconstructed the thing and floated it on solar powered barges to where they needed it.
Maybe a friendly passing whale could have assissted?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 03 17 at 07:17 PM • permalinkTim,
My longest living “Best Bud” makes his current living, $1,000 a day, flying empty airplanes from one hemisphere to another. Lease planes returned, used planes delivered, whatever.
A lot of passenger empty planes are being ferry’d round the world every day for a positive economic impact.
Idiots!I love it when pig-ignorant “journalists” get all hot and bothered over something they know nothing about- the procedure of positioning flights has been going on since the airline industry started, and transport would grind to a halt without it. Empty aircraft still have a schedule to meet, and pick up pax on the next leg- this also ignore the fatc that the cargo hold would’ve had any number of units and pallets on board, and would be picking up a shitload more in Honkers. Cargo flights never carry passengers. so why isn’t shit-for-brains carrying on like a pork chop over that disgraceful waste? Any space cubic meterage in the hold could be stuffed with steerage class backpackers.
A senior BA management type told me years ago that if the passenger deck on a 200 series 747 was fully manifested it just covered the cost of kero- the hold carried the profitable part of the trip. Most airlines would be happy if they never carried another whiny tourist, pissed sports team or gaggled of unacompanied brats sugar-loaded and ready for petulance- their don’t have to feed, supply drink, provide dunnies or allocate cabin crew for cargo cans.
Christopher Lake should be pitched into one, with concrete floaties.
Is wasting fuel and then not buying carbon credits the enviros’ version of the mile high club?
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 19 at 12:57 AM • permalink
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In the minds of Warmenistas, an aircraft can sit on the tarmac until enough passengers come to fill it up. It’s not like it’s part of a schedule and has to get to where another bunch of passengers are waiting to board it.