Covid-19 and aviation
BAILOUTS
• Coronavirus: Don’t bail out airlines, say climate campaigners
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52190502
• Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. No government should offer them a lifeline
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/29/airlines-oil-giants-government-economy
• European airlines serving Scotland seek total £9bn bailout
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/european-airlines-serving-scotland-seek-total-ps9bn-bailout-2546658
• Airline bailout tracker
https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/Airline-bailout-tracker-30-April.pdf
• Airlines must refund flights cancelled because of coronavirus: EU
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-transport/airlines-must-refund-flights-cancelled-because-of-coronavirus-eu-idUSKCN21Q2L2
• ‘No time for requirements’: Aviation industry lobbying against green strings in coronavirus bailouts
https://www.desmog.co.uk/2020/04/03/no-time-requirements-aviation-industry-lobbying-against-coronavirus-bailout-green-strings?amp&__twitter_impression=true
• Governments pour in big money to keep planes flying
https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/governments-pour-big-money-keep-planes-flying
• Virgin Australia seeks ‘statement of confidence’ from government amid coronavirus pandemic
https://apple.news/ALP3wiFcfTXuqXNS8rY5OTg
• Virgin Australia is running out of cash and facing downgrades as coronavirus grounds planes, costs jobs
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-03/virgin-australia-is-running-out-of-cash-downgrade-coronavirus/12117640
• TWU calls for cap on airline executive pay, as Qantas seeks $4.2bn bailout
https://www.twu.com.au/press/twu-calls-for-cap-on-airline-executive-pay-as-qantas-seeks-4-2bn-bailout/
• Virgin Australia goes into trading halt as it ponders financial options to stay afloat
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-14/virgin-australia-goes-into-trading-halt-coronavirus/12146572
• Coronavirus notes #3: The US bailout of its airline companies is “insane”
https://redd-monitor.org/2020/04/16/coronavirus-notes-3-the-us-bailout-of-its-airline-companies-is-insane/
• Transport secretary promised EasyJet not to levy green taxes
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/30/transport-secretary-promised-easyjet-not-to-levy-green-taxes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
COVID-19 FLIGHT CUTS
• What future do airlines have? Three experts discuss
https://theconversation.com/what-future-do-airlines-have-three-experts-discuss-135365?fbclid=IwAR1sGz8mAKkCJ9Rdq0FTolAiuXnkdVMR5ggNPotDYVz2EpnGvhXA9TRnjrs
• Global Covid-19 airport status
https://www.icao.int/safety/Pages/COVID-19-Airport-Status.aspx
• Coronavirus: Argentina bans commercial flight sales until 1 September
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52450654
• More than nine-in-ten people worldwide live in countries with travel restrictions amid COVID-19
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/01/more-than-nine-in-ten-people-worldwide-live-in-countries-with-travel-restrictions-amid-covid-19/
• Coronavirus travel restrictions, across the globe
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restrictions.amp.html
• Qantas
https://www.qantas.com/us/en/travel-info/travel-updates/coronavirus.html#service-updates
https://www.qantas.com/us/en/travel-info/travel-updates/coronavirus/qantas-australian-domestic-network-changes.html?int_cam=us%3Acoronavirus%3Aarticle%3Aaustralian-domestic-flight-changes%3Aen%3Ann
https://www.qantas.com/us/en/travel-info/travel-updates/coronavirus/qantas-international-network-changes.html?int_cam=us%3Acoronavirus%3Aarticle%3Ainternational-flight-changes%3Aen%3Ann
• How the coronavirus is disrupting US air travel, in 2 charts
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/20/21224080/coronavirus-air-travel-decline-charts
• Coronavirus and aviation: Why is air cargo grounded when the world needs it most?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-aviation-why-is-air-cargo-grounded-when-the-world-needs-it-most/
Emissions growth
COVID-19 & CORSIA 2020
• Airlines lobby to rewrite carbon deal in light of coronavirus
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/airlines-lobby-to-rewrite-carbon-deal-due-to-coronavirus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
• Airline bid to cut pollution cost may wipe out carbon demand
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/airline-bid-cut-pollution-cost-135950709.html
• Airlines urge UN body to ease climate goals for 2020s as traffic collapses
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/04/06/airlines-urge-un-body-ease-climate-goals-2020s-traffic-collapses/
• Why Covid-19 may complicate efforts to reduce airline emissions
https://reneweconomy.com.au/why-covid-19-may-complicate-efforts-to-reduce-airline-emissions-81009/
COVID-19 DEGROWTH PUSHBACK
• Aviation’s climate commitments: Clean skies from COVID-19 and beyond
https://www.internationalairportreview.com/article/115427/covid-19-sustainabilty-aviation-opportunities/
• What will the airline industry look like post Covid-19? Why the era of cheap flights may be over
https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/what-will-the-airline-industry-look-like-post-covid-19-why-the-era-of-cheap-flights-may-be-over
• COVID-19 and climate change each require targeted treatment and improved behavior
https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/the-climate-challenge-like-the-covid-19-challenge-requires-targeted-treatment-and-improved-behavior/
• How can we be sustainable post-Covid19?
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200415-how-can-we-be-sustainable-post-covid-19
• 7 ways travel must change after coronavirus
https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/7-ways-travel-must-change-after-coronavirus
• Coronavirus Australia: When are travel restrictions likely to be lifted?
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/7news.com.au/news/travel/coronavirus-australia-when-are-travel-restrictions-likely-to-be-lifted-c-999706.amp
• When will the coronavirus travel ban lift and where will Australians be able to visit first?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-17/when-will-coronavirus-travel-bans-lift-in-australia/12149564
• Plane travel in the pandemic: Emirates ‘world’s first airline’ to carry out pre-flight coronavirus tests
https://www.traveller.com.au/plane-travel-in-the-pandemic-emirates-worlds-first-airline-to-carry-out-preflight-coronavirus-tests-h1nebc
OFFSETTING
• Regulate offsetting with ‘office for carbon removal’, think tank says
https://www.endsreport.com/article/1679128/regulate-offsetting-office-carbon-removal-think-tank-says
FLIGHT DEMAND
• Airline emissions in Europe soared upwards in 2019
https://greennews.ie/airline-emissions-in-europe-soared-upwards-in-2019/
Emissions de-growth
COVID-19 DEGROWTH
• Here’s why so many planes are still flying, nearly empty
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/04/heres-why-so-many-planes-are-still-flying-nearly-empty.html
• To get coronavirus bailout money, the government is forcing airlines to fly ‘ghost planes’
https://grist.org/climate/the-government-is-forcing-airlines-to-fly-nearly-empty-to-get-bailout-money/
• Travel and COVID-19: Inside the deserted, ‘zombie’ airports of the travel apocalypse
https://www.traveller.com.au/travel-and-covid19-inside-the-zombie-airports-of-the-travel-apocalypse-h1njdv?promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=MTMwMzIzOTA&eid=email:nnn-13omn645-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04/11/2013-smh_travel-dom-travel-nnn-smh-u&campaign_code=13ITR004&list_name=10078_traveller_news&instance=2020-04-24–02-03–UTC
• Global energy review 2020
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2020
• Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-set-to-cause-largest-ever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions
• Carbon emissions from fossil fuels could fall by 2.5bn tonnes in 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/12/global-carbon-emisions-could-fall-by-record-25bn-tonnes-in-2020
• Coronavirus tipped to trigger record fall in global emissions
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/coronavirus-tipped-to-trigger-record-fall-in-global-emissions-20200413-p54jdf.html
• Commercial aviation emissions could halve due to COVID-19
https://www.tai.org.au/content/commercial-aviation-emissions-could-halve-due-covid19
• Airline emissions to fall 38% in 2020, study finds
https://www.thenational.ae/business/aviation/airline-emissions-to-fall-38-in-2020-study-finds-1.1001266
• A glimpse of aviation’s future?
https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/resilient/glimpse-aviation’s-future
• Flights are grounded – is this the moment we give up our addiction to flying?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/09/flights-are-grounded-is-this-the-moment-we-give-up-our-addiction-to-flying?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
• Coronavirus will transform UK work and travel, says AA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/science-environment-52137968?__twitter_impression=true
• Airbus reduces jet production to cope with coronavirus crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/airbus-reduces-jet-production-coronavirus-crisis
• This big Boeing 737 MAX order cancellation could be start of a wave
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2020/04/03/boeing-737-max-airbus-avolon-cancel/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
• Grounded planes due to coronavirus photos: Thousands of aircraft parked around the world
https://www.traveller.com.au/grounded-planes-due-to-coronavirus-photos-thousands-of-aircraft-parked-around-the-world-h1n3g1?promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=MTMwMzIzOTA&eid=email:nnn-13omn645-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04/11/2013-smh_travel-dom-travel-nnn-smh-u&campaign_code=13ITR004&list_name=10078_traveller_news&instance=2020-04-03–01-09–UTC
• European aviation emissions plummet as flights remain grounded
https://simpleflying.com/eu-aviation-emissions-fall/
• A complete guide to international airlines’ coronavirus policies
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-us-airlines-are-reacting-to-coronavirus
https://www.skyscanner.com.au/news/coronavirus-information
• Aeroplanes and COVID-19: Another contradiction of global capitalism
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/aeroplanes-and-rapid-spread-covid-19-another-contradiction-global-capitalism
• Travel and COVID-19: Say goodbye to economy class as the golden era of cheap travel is declared over
https://www.traveller.com.au/travel-and-covid19-say-goodbye-to-economy-class-as-the-golden-era-of-cheap-travel-is-declared-over-h1nkai?promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=MTMwMzIzOTA&eid=email:nnn-13omn645-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04/11/2013-smh_travel-dom-travel-nnn-smh-u&campaign_code=13ITR004&list_name=10078_traveller_news&instance=2020-04-24–02-03–UTC
FLIGHT REFRAIN
• Flight shame gains ground in Seattle
https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2020/04/flight-shame-gains-ground-in-seattle
ALTERNATIVE FUELS
• Germany bets on green hydrogen in quest for climate neutrality
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-bets-green-hydrogen-quest-climate-neutrality
• How much land would solar thermochemistry need to make all our aviation fuel?
https://www.solarpaces.org/how-much-land-would-solar-thermochemistry-need-to-make-all-our-aviation-fuel/
• Flying: Coming soon to an airport near you…
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/blogs/p/2020/04/12/flying-coming-soon-ton-an-airport-near-you
• The future of aviation will be greener and faster than ever before
https://www.themandarin.com.au/129903-the-future-of-aviation-will-be-greener-and-faster-than-ever-before/
AVIATION TAX
• The Netherlands keeps going upstream when it comes to aviation tax
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emanuelabarbiroglio/2020/04/18/the-netherlands-keeps-going-upstream-when-it-comes-to-aviation-tax/amp/?subId3=xid%3Afr1587217844361fcg&__twitter_impression=true
RESEARCH PAPERS
• Going global – Travel and the 2019 novel coronavirus
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920300284?via%3Dihub
• Alleviating greenhouse gas emissions caused by an international commercial air transport undertaking
https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/alleviating-greenhouse-gas-emissions-caused-by-an-international-c
Individual change v System change
CLIMATE MOVEMENT
• What covid is exposing about the climate movement
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/21/earth-day-individual-climate-impact-198835
