Climate change will slow transatlantic flights

Airline flights are known to worsen climate change but now climate change is set to worsen flight times, according to new research. Photo: AFP

Winds bolstered by climate change will slow flights between North America and Europe, boosting fuel costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – which caused the problem in the first place.

Climate change will speed up the jet stream, a high-altitude wind blowing from west to east across the Atlantic ocean, researchers wrote in the Institute of Physics journal Environmental Research Letters.