Sustainability
What we are actually doing, rather than what sounds good.
Aviation is hard to decarbonise and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What follows is what we are doing now, and what we have committed to next.
Fleet renewal does the heaviest lifting. Our average aircraft age is under six years, and a current-generation airframe burns meaningfully less fuel per seat than the previous one. Choosing turboprops for short sectors rather than flying jets on fifty-minute hops is the same decision made differently.
Operationally we run single-engine taxi where the airport allows it, fly optimised routings rather than habitual ones, and have removed the weight of paper manuals from the flight deck. The cabin goes paperless from next quarter.
We have committed to using sustainable aviation fuel as soon as it is available at the airports we serve in commercially viable quantities. That is not yet the case anywhere on our network, and we would rather say so than buy certificates and call it progress.
On the ground we are moving ramp equipment to electric where the airport power supply supports it, and our lounge and offices are on solar with grid backup.
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