Hawaiian Airlines joins international climate change study

Hawaiian Airlines says it has become the first US airline to join an international research project on climate change and air quality. The airline said Monday technicians recently installed equipment on one of its Airbus A330 airplanes that will collect atmospheric air samples from take-off to landing and record key high-altitude greenhouse gas measurements. The project is run by an international not-for-profit organisation based in Belgium called In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System. Members include research organisations, universities and weather services from Germany, France and the UK. Scientists expect Hawaiian to produce valuable metrics thanks to its central Pacific location and non-stop flights around the Pacific and US. <br/>