The Emirates Group’s third annual environment report reveals improvements in Emirates’ fuel efficiency and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions as the airline added new, modern aircraft and retired older, less efficient ones.
Covering the 2012-2013 fiscal year, the audited report analysed environmental performance data from a range of Group activities, including airline operations, dnata’s cargo and ground handling businesses and a wide range of commercial activities on the ground – from engineering to catering.
The report’s aim is to understand the Group’s environmental effects, as well as identifying opportunities to improve and capture best practice across the 68,000 strong workforce.
With airline operations constituting the main environmental effect of the Emirates Group, total fuel efficiency for all passenger and freighter flights improved by 0.29%, dropping to 0.3103 litres per tonne kilometre (L/TK). Similarly, carbon dioxide emissions dropped to 0.767 grams of CO2 per tonne kilometre (gCO2/TK), improving efficiency by 0.3%.
During the reporting period, Emirates retired or cancelled the leases of six aircraft and took delivery of 34 aircraft. Overall, Emirates airline operates one of the youngest and most efficient fleets in the world. Emirates’ average fleet age is six years versus the IATA average fleet age of 11.7 years.
This directly impacts Emirates’ fuel efficiency, which is 15.7% better than IATA’s 2012 forecast industry average, and its carbon dioxide emissions efficiency, which was 16.6% better than the IATA average.
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