American Airlines and Google were able to cut contrails made by jets by more than half during a small trial, a move that could significantly cut down on the...
to address the contrail issue. United, Alaska and Virgin Atlantic are also part of the study. That same month Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study contrails.
To select the flights that they would monitor, Google and Breakthrough Energy used artificial intelligence software to study weather, satellite imagery and flight path data. They then slightly modified flight plans during the 70 flights, which happened over six months. All were during the day and roughly half used the contrail avoiding software to adjust altitude, while half did not.Fuel burn increases even though the distance covered does not, Blickstein said.
Even a 2% increase in fuel costs is massive for an airline that spent $13.8 billion on jet fuel in 2022. Google thinks an airline like American would only need to
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