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Qantas: non-stop flights to London, New York to be carbon neutral – Executive Traveller
The ambitious Project Sunrise flights will be 100% carbon-offset, Qantas pledges.
Qantas will carbon-offset every seat on every Project Sunrise flight as a key measure in battling the rise of ‘flight shaming’, which is seeing some environmentally-conscious travellers question the carbon cost of flying.
At between 18-20 hours, the non-stop treks from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to the likes of London, New York and Paris and Frankfurt will be the world’s longest flights.
And despite being handled by the fuel-efficient Airbus A350-1000, they’ll still come with a hefty CO2 footprint.
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