Airlines have undertaken many strategies to reduce fuel consumption, such as the practice of continuous descent. But the aviation industry also burns significant fuel and emits greenhouse gasses during the taxiing process on the airport surface. In 2006, Virgin Atlantic experimented with a novel approach: Using pushback tugs to tow aircraft close to the runway to reduce the time the plane’s engines are running prior to takeoff.
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