Talk about a missed opportunity.
Can we really afford such short term BAU thinking?.
If we are ever to tackle climate change, converting airliners to greener fuels will be extremely problematic, (less so for surface vessels). So much so, that I doubt it will ever happen, or wind up being so horribly expensive and impractical that we will be burdening future generations of New Zealalanders with a stranded asset.
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What if the government instead of making this eyewatering amount of funding available to a sunset industry like air travel, put that money toward a new way of connecting us to the world, one much less damaging to the climate