ICAO PROMOTES AIR INDUSTRY CARBON DATA WITH AMADEUS
November 1st, 2009
By KEITH NUTHALL
AIRPORT customers worldwide can assess the carbon footprint of their flights when buying an e-ticket in future because of a groundbreaking deal between the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Spain-based travel IT company Amadeus. It supplies e-ticketing platforms to many companies, and will now use data from an electronic ICAO carbon calculator, which takes account of aircraft type, route specific data, passenger load factors, cargo carried and other factors affecting CO2 emissions. David Jones, Amadeus CEO, said: "Through ...
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