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The dream destination of all private passengers in machines with Austrian license plates in August 2023 was the sophisticated Côte d’Azur and Nice Airport there. 297 take-offs and landings were registered there, followed by Vienna (200 take-offs and landings) and Salzburg (176 take-offs and landings).
This was the result of the preliminary evaluation of the OpenSky database, on which the routes of private jets can be tracked. According to the NGO, they are the most climate-damaging means of transport with emissions that are around 50 times those of a train journey. With the evaluation of the August flight data, Greenpeace is also presenting its tracker, which not only allows the routes of the aircraft to be followed in real time, but also provides information on fuel consumption and emissions.
NEOS want EU-wide private jet ban
The NGO is also calling on Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) to campaign for an EU-wide ban on private jets. “In view of the climate crisis, it is also perfectly reasonable for the super-rich to start their vacation by train instead of by private jet. A ban on private jets is essential in order to get a little closer to climate justice,” argued Jasmin Duregger, climate and energy expert at Greenpeace in Austria. According to initial estimates, Austrian private jets covered a total of around two million kilometers in August, flew around the globe a good 52 times and caused around 10,133 tons of CO2 emissions.
The basis for the private jet tracker and the August data analysis is the database of the crowdsourcing platform OpenSky-Networks, which was linked to the data from the Austrian aviation authority. According to an NGO report, around 227 private aircraft are currently active in Austria.
Source: Nachrichten
