Hawaiian Airlines Earns Carbon Credits

Posted: Wed 15 Feb, 2012 3:19 PM

Hawaiian Airlines earned the first ever aviation-based carbon credits by reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 22,000 metric tonnes over the past six years. The airline used an eco-friendly engine washing technology that was developed by Pratt & Whitney. Hawaiian’s reduction of CO2 emissions as had the equivalent effect of taking 700 cars off the road annually, as reported in Travel Daily Asia.

 

Hawaiian Airlines’ commitment to the reducing carbon dioxide emissions started through a programme launched in 2005. Since then, its engine-washing system has saved the company more than 2.5 million gallons of fuel, along with an estimated 26,000 gallons of water that would have been used with traditional washing methods.

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