Last week, we published a report on the contrail impact from business aviation and saw a few unique takeaways for the business aviation industry.
We first saw the majority of our contrail impact comes from a very small minority of flights, just 23 flights were responsible for 35% of the total contrail impact from a sample of nearly 17,000 flights. Of those flights, 65% of them could have avoided or reduced their contrail impact by flying higher, saving fuel, and thus reducing their CO2 and non-CO2 impact, instead of a tradeoff between the two.
So, targeting mitigation efforts to a small subset of flights would have an outsized impact on reducing our non-CO2 impact. Moreover, we saw the opportunity to reduce both CO2 and non-CO2 impacts, something unique to business aviation because of the higher service ceilings of the aircraft we examined, allowing them to climb above contrail forming regions.
This work has helped us over the past 6 months in a contrail avoidance pilot program with Flexjet in Europe and to refine a contrail reporting process that we can bring our clients.
Please reach out to us to learn more about our contrail reporting and mitigation product, or to learn more and download the report, visit: https://lnkd.in/eGfv3FVP