How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?

Jan K. Brueckner, Matthew Kahn and Jerry Nickelsburg

Economics of Transportation, 2024, vol. 38, issue C

Abstract: Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel-price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry’s capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This portfolio approach allows us to study the utilization and composition of the capital stock at a highly disaggregated level. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions.

Keywords: Fuel; Airlines; Carbon emissions; Speed; Fleet renewal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2024.100358

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