Travel, Sustainable Travel, Airlines
Google Flights Now Shows You Carbon Emissions Per Flight
This useful information will help you travel sustainably
On October 6, 2021, Google announced this new feature as part of their broader green-travel push to help consumers make useful sustainable travel choices.
From the screenshot I took above, you can see on the right side column right before the total price, what the carbon emissions would be for that particular flight. Note it is for one person traveling from Dallas, TX, USA to Denpasar, Bali in November.
The first flight was listed for $1,187USD round-trip in economy class. The cabin class can make a difference as a larger seat in Premium can take up more space. Notice the flight’s carbon emissions are highlighted in green to show you how much less your carbon footprint would be if you took this flight. In this case, it would be 13% less of the original median data already collected for this particular route.
How does Google collect this data?
Google gets this data from third parties, such as airlines and the European Environmental Agency (EEA). The data shown are sorted from lowest to highest. You can also specifically sort your data by using the…
