{"id":235017,"date":"2025-06-14T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fuel-efficient-aircraft-linked-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:00:16","slug":"are-more-fuel-efficient-aircraft-increasing-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=235017","title":{"rendered":"Are More Fuel-Efficient Aircraft Increasing Global Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that the world is facing a climate crisis, and that businesses are looking at ways to limit their carbon footprint, in a bid to help lower greenhouse gas emissions amid the harsh reality of climate change. However, some researchers believe that newer, more fuel-efficient aircraft could be contributing more to global warming than older series aircraft. Around 65% of jets cruise at altitudes between 30,000 to 39,000 feet, a prime location for <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"271474\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aircraft-contrails\/\"  >aircraft contrails<\/a><\/span> to occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrails exist when water vapour from aircraft engines condenses and freezes at high altitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1598,10142,1012,801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-contrails","category-fuel-efficency","category-new-aircraft","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235018,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235017\/revisions\/235018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}