Abstract
The Indian domestic aviation sector is on a growth path and this progress can be attributed to several factors such as an expanding economy, an increase in the average income of Indians, low and economic air fares, more schedules and options available to a traveller, and a reduction in the differential fare between air travel and air-conditioned train travel. It is well known that air travel has high carbon footprints among various modes of travel, even though domestic aviation emissions have so far remained outside any credible cap-and-trade regimes around the world and also international aviation emissions are not assigned to any nation's greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory. However, signs of carbon consciousness are emerging in the domestic and international aviation sector all over the world, including carbon off-set purchases by passengers. This article ranks airlines operating in the Indian domestic sector on their per passenger-km GHG emission basis. IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet were the three most ‘clean...
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