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

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  • Brueckner, Jan K.
  • Kahn, Matthew E.
  • Nickelsburg, Jerry

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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.

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  • Brueckner, Jan K. & Kahn, Matthew E. & Nickelsburg, Jerry, 2024. "How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 38(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecotra:v:38:y:2024:i:c:s2212012224000170
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2024.100358
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