Xiamen Air Claims First Carbon Neutral Flight

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SINGAPORE—To celebrate the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xiamen Air mounted what it calls its first carbon neutral flight on its Xiamen to Beijing service. MF8101 was flown with a Boeing 787-8. Carbon emissions were reduced by optimizing flight paths, cutting down weight, minimizing single...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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