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Accessing carbon emissions data for flights will one day be standard fare across the travel industry. These implementations are a sign of more to come.
Travel agents using Sabre's desktop software have begun receiving carbon emission data when they search for flights, and corporations that use the company's booking tool for road warriors, GetThere, will get access later this year.
Access to this data about which flights are the biggest polluters and those that have a somewhat more benign environmental impact — relatively speaking — comes through a several-year-old Sabre partnership with Google.
For example, the data might estimate that a JFK to London Heathrow evening departure on Virgin Atlantic has 29 percent lower carbon emissions than all flights on that route on average. Th