How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?

Jan K. Brueckner (), Matthew Kahn and Jerry Nickelsburg
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Jan K. Brueckner: University of California, Irvine

No 16189, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: carbon dioxide emissions; energy conservation; airline fuel consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2023-05
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Published - published in: Economics of Transportation, 2024, 38, 100358

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