Greenpeace private flight study with embarrassing mistake

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According to a study by Greenpeace, the shortest flight path for private jets in Europe runs between Stuttgart and Böblingen, with a population of just under 47,000. The route is only 14.82 kilometers long and is said to have been traveled 18 times in recent months. A no-go for climate protectors of course.

Now it turns out that the route of 14 kilometers does not even exist. As the news channel ntv found out, Böblingen has neither an airport nor an airstrip. There used to be an airport there, but it has been out of use since the 1950s.

“Where the runway used to be, there’s now a lake”

Residential buildings were built above the airfield as part of a public project. “There is no runway, no runway. Where the runway used to be, there is now a lake,” says a city spokesman.

The Dutch consultancy Delft, which is responsible for the error in the research, has already corrected the blunder. “After the publication of the report, we were informed that one of the airports mentioned in the report, Böblingen in Germany, is no longer in operation,” ntv said.

Böblingen flights “negligible”

In retrospect, Delft emphasizes that the CO₂ emissions from Böblingen flights are “negligible” anyway. Greenpeace also admitted that not all short-haul routes were properly mapped out in the study.

Now another route ranks first among the shortest routes: the route from Friedrichshafen in Germany to Altenrhein SG in Switzerland. It is 22 kilometers long. (lia)

Source: Blick