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Cheap Airline Tickets Won't Be Around for Long
Ryanair does relatively okay on its carbon emissions. But its budget price model doesn’t really tally with getting people to fly less.
"Europe's greenest, cleanest airline."
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Greta Thunberg probably isn’t a fan of Ryanair Holdings Plc. The 16-year-old Swedish activist took the train to the World Economic Forum in Davos in January to castigate the rich and powerful adults there for failing to tackle the unfolding climate emergency (most of them had arrived by plane).
Three months later Ryanair was revealed to be one of Europe’s 10 biggest sources of pollution after its carbon dioxide on intra-European flights emissions jumped 7% last year. The other nine sinners are coal power plants.1