Fuel Efficiency

This article discusses proactive steps that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) is taking, along with its members, to reduce fuel consumption. Operational efficiencies such as route shortening, optimized flight operations procedures, and aircraft maintenance have all been proven fuel savers. Other recommendations for fuel savings have come from IATA's GO Teams. Having visited over 50 airports, the GO Teams have quantified practical steps – from having planes carry less weight (saving possibly 9,000 gallons of fuel per aircraft by reducing per seat weight by one kilogram) to shutting down at least one engine during long taxiing times – that could both save fuel and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The author notes that the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change estimates that global CO2 emissions will grow to 3% by 2050. Aircraft already produce 2 % of global CO2. The IATA sees the support of airports in their various approaches to fuel savings as a vital part in the global effort to reduce CO2 emissions. The IATA fuel conservation campaign projects a fuel savings of 25% by 2020.

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  • Accession Number: 01052289
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jul 2 2007 7:32AM