#ghost flights

[youthchronical]

Allowing Qatar to add flights to compete with Qantas would have reduced airfares, says competition watchdog

Allowing Qatar Airways to add more weekly flights at Australian airports would have made fares cheaper, the competition watchdog says, as pressure mounts on the government to reconsider its decision to block the airline. The government said it prevented Qatar from adding 21 weekly flights at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports in the “national interest”, saying that national carrier Qantas…

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[tearsofrefugees]

President Biden's critics accuse his administration of organizing "secret" migrant flights to communities around the country. But those critics get some key facts wrong.

[hennethgalad]

The Guardian view on ghost flights: a symptom, not the disease | Editorial

Editorial: Airlines fly empty planes to keep hold of slots because carriers worry about financial, rather than the Earth’s, assets

"The orthodox view is that economies should expand by 2% a year to increase national welfare. Yet this means doubling the size of the economy every 35 years. This does not take into account the fact that economic activity begins with the extraction of natural resources; that it does not necessarily increase human enjoyment; that it imposes environmental and social costs; and that it can be damaging in terms of inequality. Treating GDP growth as an end in itself risks, as the UN suggests, growth that does more harm than good."

you can grow the economy but not the ecosystem

[cultofcreatures]

Why the sky is still full of empty 'ghost' flights

Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, airlines are still being forced to run empty or near-empty "ghost flights" in order to hold onto co

Well I didn't know this was a thing, and now I'm fuckin pissed. What a waste of CO2 emissions. Why are we not making a bigger deal of this?

[royalpain16]

Ok, are the air traffic controllers not essential employers! Look how close those two planes are over my backyard!

[deanlawrencekowalski]

As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful ‘ghost flights’ | Grist Planes have been flying empty to avoid losing their places at busy airports. Source: As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful ‘ghost flights’

[ralexmarshall]

The UK Home Office runs secretive mass-deportation "ghost flights", staffed by untrained and excessively violent racists #democracy.