Archive for the 'Air' Category

Rideshare to the airport

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

We’re probably all well aware by now that air travel generates a massive amount of CO2, more than any other form of transportation.

One transatlantic flight for a family of four creates more CO2 than that family generates domestically in an entire year. (Source)

As PickupPal is still quite new (launched Jan 15th, 2008), we have yet to convince the world’s airlines to sign-up to our service and help fill their empty seats. That is work in progress. ;)

In the meantime, we’re building Eco-Rideshare landing pages to enable airline passengers to rideshare to the airport and reduce the amount of CO2 generated on the highways.

Here are the new landing pages for some of the major US airports:

More to come…

- Jonathan