Lufthansa group confirmed that 18,000 flights had been flown empty to keep airport slots

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  1. Where are the politicians and airport regulators who can step up and secure a more environmentally friendly solution to the problem at hand?

  2. Let’s be clear on one thing or two…

    The airplanes didn’t “flew themselves”… Rotation at destination airports wasn’t done with “ghosts”…

    Crews had to fly these flights. Ground crews had to “miss” the passengers, the luggages, required fuel was less than normally for the route. People run numbers, log flights, movements, etc…

    No one exposed this earlier? What are people doing by keeping a silence?

  3. I didnt read the article, but during 2020, this wasnt the case, regulation/slots were frozen. This happened recently. I think even Ryanair was lobbying the most about this. Because legacy carriers had slots on their domestic ports, and Ryanair wants a piece of that. Some slots are very expensive to get.

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