Avoiding Contrails on Night & Winter Flights Is Aviation’s Fastest Climate Win — New T&E Study

CleanTechnica
By Transport & Environment…Jan 20, 2026, 2:02 am272 ptsTop
A new analysis by T&E shows that 25% of European aviation’s contrail-related global warming comes from night flights in autumn and winter, which make up just 10% of European air traffic. Contrail warming is highly seasonal and concentrated in time: in 2019, 75% of European contrail warming occurred between…

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