Govt wants plane emissions cut
The Federal Government wants to change the way air travel is managed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
It plans to introduce measures to improve fuel efficiency, including changing flight paths and stopping planes from leaving terminals if there are too many aircraft already waiting to take-off or land.
Federal Transport Minister Mark Vaile says the measures will reduce fuel costs for airlines, but concedes they may cause delays for passengers.
"That may possibly be the case, but if you have the air traffic control systems and the company operators and their schedulers working more closely together it shouldn't," he said.
Speaking at an APEC meeting in Adelaide, Mr Vaile says the measures will help to achieve greenhouse gas targets.
"To achieve the sorts of things that we need to commit to into the future, we need to be talking about tens of thousands of tonnes of CO2 emissions overall and right throughout the transport sector," he said.
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