Eighteen months of data were analyzed by researchers while the Massachusetts Port Authority considers a proposal to add more than two dozen hangars to the airport.
Two-fifths of private jets departing Hanscom Field had flights lasting less than an hour, according to a new report on the environmental impact of the Bedford airfield. The study comes as officials mull expanding the regional airport.18 months of data from the airfield. Over that time, private jets accounted for an estimated 106,676 tons of carbon emissions. The report found that an estimated 41% of departures had a flight duration less than an hour long.
“The implications for the climate are so serious and so one-sided and so disproportionately huge that you really can't justify using such a means of transportation anymore,” Barrett said.
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