Over the last six years, Hawaiian Airlines reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 22,000 metric tons!
Here’s the really interesting part though; they didn’t change their engines, nor did they use expensive (and toxic chemicals), nor did they change their fuel. They simply have started using a revolutionary process of cleaning the engines.
The special cleaning system was developed by Pratt & Whitney, and there are currently two cleaning stations in use by Hawaiian Airlines, one in Los Angeles, and one in San Francisco. This system also uses only water (no fancy chemicals), and it is a closed system. This means that it also saves water!
When it comes to the bottom line (which let’s face it, many companies are interested in), Hawaiian has saved about 2.5 million gallons of fuel over the last several years, and about 26,000 gallons of water compared with traditional cleaning methods, so that saves money, too!
In fact, when fully in use by Hawaiian (as it is now), it reduces emissions by as much as taking 700 automobiles off the road!
The carbon dioxide emissions reductions credits are one per ton of reduced carbon dioxide. These are used to measure carbon dioxide emissions reductions on the industry-wide scale. In fact, these credits are the first such credits given for an airline industry.