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Luxury Travel and Its Impact. An Analysis of Private Jet Flights

27 Sep 2024

Commercial: The commercial operation or use of aircraft by companies for the carriage of passenger or goods as an aid to the conduct of their business and the availability of the aircraft for whole aircraft charter. [...] It does so by calculating the CO2 emissions shares from flights that arrived during the summer season and during the rest of the year at each of the 45 airports. [...] An exceptional high number of such planes arrived at one of the seven airports in the direct vicinity of the venue during the week of the event (Faber & Raphaël 2022). [...] The CO2 intensity, which is the total CO2 emissions divided by the number of flights and the distance covered, tends to increase on shorter distances because of the fuel used for take-off. [...] The arrivals by private jets over the course of the year correspond to the peaks of standard tourism.

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30
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Germany

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