The awareness of environmental impact caused by jet airplanes is big on a global scale.
Recent research made by SIFO in Sweden about air transport and the environment (June 2006), half of the respondents say that air travel is an environmental problem, but can be solved by applying new technologies and stronger governmental and international regulation. Scandjet sees the greatest potential for improving the environmental impact in better utilization of every airplane.
Co-operation gives a cleaner environment
Scandjet is convinced that wider co-operation between actors in the air transport industry would lead to greater utilization and less negative environmental impact per transported passenger. Since 2003 Scandjet actively works on co-ordinating air transport to destinations in Europe. To further focus the co-ordination of air transport, Scandjet founded the company Scandjet Aviation Group AB whose primary task is air consolidating. Air consolidating in the air transport industry is still a relatively unknown term, meaning that more several actors shares the capacity of an airplane.
Clear example
In the airline company Fly Nordics in-flight magazine "Clear Skies", chief pilot Johan Björlin gives a good example of the positive environmental impact that is achieved if the airplane is full. On the question "How many litres of fuel does an airplane consume, and how much is it in comparison with a car?” Björlin answers:
To be able to answer this question we firstly have to make some basic calculations.
An MD80’s consumption is on average 2800 kg/hour. Since we fly with a speed of 800 km/hour our airplane consumes roughly 4,4 litres of fuel per kilometre, which at the first glance seems extremely high Considering that our airplanes take between 149 and 163 passengers, the fuel consumption becomes less of a chock. On average, the cabin factor on our flights is 65-70 % giving a consumption of 0,036 litres per kilometre and transported person. Bearing this in mind even an owner of a Toyota Prius has to consider carefully weather to take the car or the plane to Copenhagen.
88 percent cabin factor
Scandjet splits the airplane capacity between different travel actors leading to a greater utilization of every airplane. On Scandjets flights to Croatia the cabin factor is more than 88%.
Empty legs
Scandjet Aviation Group AB also helps airline companies to optimize its air transport capacity. The density of charter flights to various destinations often results in a number of empty flights. By careful marketing Scandjet helps airline companies sell so called “gaps in the production” as well as to fill their existing scheduled flights. Everybody benefits from air consolidating; airline company, travel agent, the passenger and even people that aren’t flying, through a better environment.