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A 216 mile flight between Oslo and Bergen, Norway’s two largest cities, at “economy speed” saved 287 pounds of fuel and 890 pounds of carbon emissions. The entire journey lasts only three minutes longer, Midteide said.
A slightly longer flight between Oslo and Paris or London takes about 10 minutes longer than before.
To save more fuel, SAS taxies its planes to gates on one engine, turning off the other engines after landing, Midteide said. The same tactic is planned for taxing before take-off.
Of course, the “important” people who have to schedule meetings a tad later will be inconvenienced.
Could another national 55 MPH speed limit be next?
The bad old days loom ever closer: http://tinyurl.com/4rj6xx
well, someone’s using their noodle at sas
Saving 287 pounds of fuel – which is not all carbon – saves 890 pounds of carbon emissions? They don’t explain how that works, but I’m guessing it has to do with the carbon cost of extracting, refining, and transporting the fuel before it is used. If so, you’d think that the supply side costs would get a bit of attention too…
In the discussion on global warming, yes or no, and wheter oil is running out or not, I think that regardless of what is true, it can’t be that bad to tone it all down a little. Not massively, just a bit. We seem to be running in top gear all the time. Stop giving 110%, bring it down to 90% and I think everybody will be happier.
My question is: do you really need a plane to go 216miles? I bet a HST can do it faster, cheaper and more comfy…
I love the way I can now go to London from Brussels by train in less than 2 hours (1h51 to be exact) with no check-in lines, no hassle. Or Paris (1h22).
Aviation and Suburban Living and SUVs, all in the Cross-Hairs of the “Energy Crisis” !!! SUVs are already DINOSAURS, with even Used Car Dealers, those Paragons of Virtue, REFUSING TO TAKE THEM IN TRADE !!!
SAS taxies its planes to gates on one engine, turning off the other engines after landing.”
Over time, I wonder how much additional stress is applied to one wing when the engine on the other wing is shut down.
#5 – Excellent point
216 miles? Just think of all the extra wasted time to get to the airport, park the car, clear security, board the plane, wait for takeoff permission, land, disembark, wait for luggage, gat a rental car, etc.
Just make the trip by car.
Question is, is it 216 miles as the crow (or plane) flies? Considering the geography of Norway, it could actually be quite a bit shorter that way than going up and down mountains, and in and out of fjords (yes they have bridges, but not necesarily where you’d want them)…
…not to mention what a bit of Scandinavian weather can do to those roads.
There’s still the option of taking the train, though.
I’m all for airliners saving money and reducting polution but does SAS actually pass those savings to the consumers or do they still add on charges like the airlines here in the US regardless of actions like these? I somehow suspect the latter.
That’s why prices should go even higher.
It seems that people’s imagination doesn’t work on full belly…
#11 And now American Airlines has a new scam – they are charging $15 for the first checked bag and cut domestic flights. So more people will try to cram into fewer flights with more carry on luggage.
why is that a scam? They are charging people based on costs.
We need to open up more drilling before things get worse.
>>We need to open up more drilling before
>>things get worse.
Yeah man! Kill those fucking polar bears and trash the wilderness, and next thing you know we’ll have unlimited supplies of $0.27/gal gasoline! Fageddabout those “peak oil” commies. Let’s bring American Civilization to the few remaining unspoiled areas on Earth!
Use Google maps to get directions from Oslo to Bergen Norway. 496 km. You folks suggesting road and rail have obviously never lived in an isolated area with a small population…
Norway’s population is under 5 million total – I doubt they can justify high speed rail links with that kind of population base (Oslo is only a little over 500,000 total). And Norway does seem to be very mountainous… The 496 km route doesn’t seem to have a straight stretch longer than a few kilometres!
Flying is over rated. Glad to see them cutting down on fuel usage. As for me, flying is a last resort. If only for the inconvenience of having my knees against a hard seat in front of me and not being able to relax for 6 hours due to the fact that we as tight as sardines when it comes to shoulder clearance.
Did I mention I hate flying?
Re: More Oil – I wonder if and how much North Slope Oil – you might remember, it was supposed to be “Oil for America” is being shipped to Asia instead of the USA ??? I think it was a few years after they opened up the pipeline the Oil Cartel petitioned Congress to let them ship the “American Oil” to Asia !!! The Cartel is ONLY CONCERNED ABOUT PROFITS AND DOESN’T GIVE A FLYING F**K IS YOU CAN GET TO WORK !!!
Oil is a fungible commodity. Sell oil to Asia and that’s less oil demanded by them from other suppliers. It’s the total supply that determines the price.
Also, based on the price, the oil companies deliver supply.
If they really wanted to cut fuel use, they should be taxing private jet flights that carry a few people at a time.