Every flight Every Day Destroying The Environment
It's fact that one of Australia's newest airlines is tankering return fuel out of major departure points even though it burns a LOT more fuel on the outbound sector to carry the return sectors fuel. Aparrently it's cheaper than paying the higher prices of fuel at out ports.
OK so business is there to make money, and we all know the environment and the airline industry don't mix, but should every person on the planet who don't fly be paying for the profitibility of the airline industry in general, who choose to tanker fuel in the sky all for the point of saving a few cents per litre ?
On the other hand, why is it cheaper for the airlines to purchase the fuel in major ports and air freight (tanker) it to outports for use on the next return flight. Road freight SHOULD be cheaper.
If this all means air freighting fuel is cheaper, then surely it should translate across the board to general air freight ??
Something is wrong here.
Last edited by pullock; 10th Apr 2005 at 13:05.