Airlines present CO2 reduction proposals to UN
Airline leaders presented their proposals to reduce greenhouse emissions at a United Nations forum yesterday.
The goals, announced at the IATA AGM in June and now incorporated into a working paper to be presented to the ICAO High Level Meeting on International Climate Change Oct. 7-9 in Montreal, include improving carbon efficiency by an average of 1.5% per year to 2020, stabilizing aviation emissions with carbon-neutral growth from 2020 and a longer-term “aspirational” goal to reduce aviation “net carbon emissions” by 50% in 2050 from 2005 levels.
Report walks airlines through the world of social media
Even though the technology is still new, a new report by Innovation Analysis Group “aims to show airlines executives what social media can accomplish for them.”
The report provides a summary of the dos and don’ts of social media, as well as a rollout plan.
If any single event illustrated the need for airlines to understand the power of social media, it was the experience of a Canadian band whose instruments were callously mistreated by United Airlines baggage handlers.
United Airlines furloughs 290 pilots
United Airlines announced that they have furloughed another 290 pilots as part of their plan to reduce its workforce.
United has said it aims to shrink its work force by 7,000. It has been making periodic furloughs and, in some cases, layoffs to move toward that goal.
The new furloughs bring the total number of United pilots out of work to 1,164, according to the United branch of the Air Line Pilots Association.
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