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Aircraft Type
ERA's fleet is made up of 57% jet aircraft and 43% prop aircraft types.
Passenger vs Cargo
ERA's members fleet comprises of 730 passenger aircraft and 105 cargo aircraft.
Seat Capacity
The fleet of ERA's members have an average seating capacity of 80 seats.
ATR
Standard 3 avionics – flying into a more efficient future
ATR’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, Alessandro Amendola, explains that the implementation of their latest avionics suite, Standard 3, certified in June 2017, represents the company’s desire to remain at the cutting edge of navigation aid tools.
Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney Canada
Green innovation
Aircraft engine manufacturers are making their engines more environmentally friendly to reduce aviation’s impact on the environment. Regional International talks to ERA members Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney Canada to find out more.
Rolls-Royce
Southampton Airport
Leading the way with LED
Southampton Airport, ERA’s Airport of the Year 2016, was recognised in particular for its efforts to reduce the airport’s carbon footprint. Tom Watmough, Southampton Airport’s Safety, Health & Environment Manager, explains how the airport has upgraded its lighting, along with applying other strategies, to achieve this.
Southampton Airport uses solar power as well as Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting. Which areas of the airport use these technologies?
The challenges to going green
The challenges to going green
Providing more than 65.5 million jobs and supporting 3.6 per cent of the world’s GDP, it’s undeniable that the aviation industry makes a momentous contribution to global economic activity. Precisely for this same reason, our industry has a huge responsibility in ensuring sustainability of its global growth and respect for the environment.
Improving the environmental performance of aviation is a challenge, but one the industry is committed to meeting. In 2004, ICAO adopted three major environmental goals.
Rolls-Royce
Electric flight: who’s got the power?
Can electric flight ever become a reality? According to ERA member Rolls-Royce, it’s closer than you think. Matheu Parr, Rolls-Royce ACCEL Programme Manager, explains why.
The demand for cleaner, more sustainable power has never been greater. Around the world, businesses, governments and individuals are striving to live more sustainably, and the aerospace industry is no different. New entrants, existing players and collaborations between the two are racing to innovate, bringing the promise of electric flight closer.
SAS
Scandinavian sustainability
ERA member SAS External Production is the wet leasing production arm of SAS, the largest airline in Scandinavia. SAS fully supports IATA’s vision that by 2050 it will be possible to fly commercially without climate impact. We hear from Lars Andersen Resare, Head of Sustainability at SAS, to find out how the airline is supporting this.
Aviation industry players collaborate on first regional aviation ‘Perfect Flight’ in Sweden
Braathens Regional Airlines has collaborated with Air BP, ATR and Neste to achieve the ‘Perfect Flight’ from Halmstad City airport to Stockholm Bromma airport in Sweden – a country aiming to be carbon neutral by 2045. Sustainable aviation fuel, produced by Neste and supplied by Air BP, was used to power the ATR 72-600 – the regional aircraft with the best environmental credentials. Every element of the flight management process has been optimised to keep carbon emissions to a minimum.