Watch: what it’s like to fly to Abu Dhabi on one of the world’s most sustainable flights – The National

Watch: what it’s like to fly to Abu Dhabi on one of the world’s most sustainable flights – The National

It’s 10am on a Saturday and I'm at London Heathrow Airport. A blue screen above the Etihad check-in desk reads "sustainable flight", so I know that I'm at the right counter. I’m here to fly on what is one of the most sustainable commercial passenger flights in the world – Etihad’s EY20 eco-flight from London to Abu Dhabi.

Departing the UK’s busiest airport, this flight is taking off only a week before thousands of people descend in the country for Cop26, the UN climate change conference in Glasgow.

Today, in a culmination of two years of research into more sustainable flying, Etihad is operating flight EY20 on a specially planned operation designed to help reduce carbon emissions.