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What are ‘ghost flights’ and why are they causing so much uproar right now?

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2022-01-23 13:00:06

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Their seats lie empty, their emergency-landing videos stay unwatched and their meals remain unmicrowaved as they glide like phantoms through the skies, as if blighted by some terrible airborne curse.

For they are the “ghost flights” of the aviation industry: Chartered to fly around the world – sometimes just around an airport – simply so airlines can hang on to takeoff and landing slots.

And now, a U.K. parliamentary petition has been launched waging war on this “shocking waste of resources and a needless source of emissions.” At the time of writing, it had amassed more than 4,000 signatures.

“Airlines have been flying planes empty to retain their landing slots,” the petition states. “These ‘ghost’ flights are a shocking waste of resources and a needless source of emissions.”

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