Ask a travel nerd: Environmentally friendly air travel for cheap stoics

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Minimizing your carbon footprint while flying tends to require deliberately forgoing some significant comforts.

As someone who cares about my environmental impact and spending as little money as possible, life is full of fraught decisions.

Should I make eye contact with the person on the street raising money to fight climate change or awkwardly pretend to be on a phone call? That’s why budget airlines Frontier and Spirit ranked best regarding carbon dioxide emissions per seat mile in a 2022 analysis by IBA, an aviation consulting firm.

Flying direct often means paying more, but these low-cost airlines have turned that logic upside down. That means you can spend less, emit less and spend less time in the air.Low-cost airlines might be more environmentally friendly on the whole, and their fares can be cheaper on the surface, but actually saving money with them can be challenging.

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