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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.
Binter reduces the consumption of plastic on board
Binter has taken another step in its sustainability policy by reducing the use of plastic elements in its on-board service, incorporating ecological consumables. The airline will stop using around three million plastic cups per year by replacing them with 100 per cent compostable cardboard containers. It also incorporates the use of recycled paper napkins with the Ecolabel certificate (sustainable European criteria), wooden spreaders and menu boxes using biodegradable cardboard.
ATR receives the highest distinction at the Ecomobility Awards
ATR is granted Gold Trophy for its transport plan designed to meet the challenges of sustainable development
ATR, the European turboprop manufacturer, won the Gold award at the Ecomobility Trophies ceremony. The awards ceremony took place Wednesday, 12 December at the SMART CITY Forum in the Salle des Illustres in Toulouse’s Capitole complex.