Let’s face it. Flying usually sucks. Air travel is also contributing to climate change in a pretty significant way. And that sucks for us and the planet. But what if it didn’t? I could tell the flight I was on was a bit different. First, the flight attendants were using real glassware in coach. And second, their boss, United CEO Scott Kirby was one of the passengers.
The glassware was marking an historic occasion: the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by a modern jumbo jet. Sure, it was only fueling the right engine, but that wasn’t the point. It was an experimental flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.,
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