%0 Report
        %A Brueckner, Jan K.
%A Kahn, Matthew E.
%A Nickelsburg, Jerry
        %T How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 16189
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16189
        %X Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily inventoried as a set of long-lived, durable aircraft. This portfolio approach allows us to study the utilization and composition of the capital stock at a highly disaggregated level. Changes in airline operations directed toward conserving fuel can be an important path toward lower emissions.
        %K carbon dioxide emissions
%K energy conservation
%K airline fuel consumption