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Revealed: BA owner pressured government to hide emissions data

British Airways doesn’t want the public to know it has the highest emissions per passenger on transatlantic routes

By Ben Webster
Revealed: BA owner pressured government to hide emissions data
In a study of transatlantic routes, BA was the worst-performing airline | Alamy Stock Photo
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The owner of British Airways is seeking to conceal the environmental impact of its flights by lobbying against a UK government proposal to require airlines to inform passengers of every trip’s carbon emissions when booking, openDemocracy can reveal.

The airline may have the most to lose if the proposal is introduced, because a study found it had the highest emissions per passenger on transatlantic routes.

A Freedom of Information request revealed that International Airlines Group (IAG), BA’s parent company, had argued against the proposal when responding to the Department for Transport’s 2021 consultation on its ‘Jet Zero strategy’.

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